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DO NOW: Why do some people join gangs? Why do others decide not to join gangs?

DO NOW: Why do some people join gangs? Why do others decide not to join gangs? What are both people looking for, and what influences their decisions?.

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DO NOW: Why do some people join gangs? Why do others decide not to join gangs?

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  1. DO NOW: Why do some people join gangs? Why do others decide not to join gangs? What are both people looking for, and what influences their decisions?

  2. WHII.17: Describe the relative importance of economic and imperial competition, Balkan nationalism, German militarism and aggression, and the power vacuum in Europe due to the declining power of the Russian, Austrian, and Ottoman Empires in causing World War I.

  3. “All the long years of my reign, my colleagues, the monarchs of Europe, have paid no attention to what I have to say. Soon, with my great navy to endorse my words, they will be more respectful.” – Kaiser Wilhelm II “We must build a bigger navy than the enemy will build when he hears we’re building a bigger navy than he’s building.” – British Official

  4. Constitution of The Black Hand… “Unification or Death” I. Purpose and Name Article 1. For the purpose of realizing the national ideals – the Unification of Serbdom - an organization is hereby created, whose members may be any Serbian irrespective of sex, religion, place or birth, as well as anybody else who will sincerely serve this idea. Article 2. The organization gives priority to the revolutionary struggle … therefore its institution is an absolutely secret one for wider circles. Article 3. The organization bears the name: "Unification or Death".

  5. Article 4. In order to carry into effect its task the organization will do the following things: (1) Following the character of its reason for being, it will exercise its influence over all the official factors in Serbia … as also over all the strata of the State and over the entire social life in it: (2) It will carry out a revolutionary organization in all the territories where Serbians are living: (3) Beyond the frontiers, it will fight with all means against all enemies of this idea: (4) It will maintain friendly relations with all the States, nations, organizations, and individual persons who sympathize with Serbia and the Serbian race: (5) It will give every assistance to those nations and organizations who are fighting for their own national liberation and unification.

  6. IV. The Seal Article 34. The Organization's official seal is thus composed: In the center of the seal there is a powerful arm holding in its hand an unfurled flag on which - as a coat of arms - there is a skull with crossed bones; by the side of the flag, a knife, a bomb and a vile of poison. Around, in a circle, there is the following inscription, reading from left to right: "Unification or Death", and in the base: "The Supreme Central Directorate".

  7. The Oath: Article 35. On entering into the organization the joining member must pronounce the following oath of allegiance: "I (the Christian name and surname of the joining member), by entering into the organization "Unification or Death", do hereby swear by the Sun which shineth upon me, by the Earth which feedeth me, by God, by the blood of my forefathers, by my honor and by my life, that from this moment onward and until my death, I shall faithfully serve the task of this organization and that I shall at all times be prepared to bear for it any sacrifice. I further swear by God, by my honor and by my life, that I shall unconditionally carry into effect all its orders and commands. I further swear by my God, by my honor and by my life, that I shall keep within myself all the secrets of this organization and carry them with me into my grave. May God and my comrades in this organization be my judges if at any time I should wittingly fail or break this oath!"

  8. So, a Serbian terrorist killed the Archduke of Austria… • What do you think happened next? • What do you think happened next? • What do you think happened next? • What do you think happened next?

  9. WHII.17: Describe the relative importance of economic and imperial competition, Balkan nationalism, German militarism and aggression, and the power vacuum in Europe due to the declining power of the Russian, Austrian, and Ottoman Empires in causing World War I.

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