Question

Austria issued Serbia a ten-part ultimatum in response to?

Answer 1

Answer: The role of Serbian and Slavic nationalists in the assassination of the Austrian Archduke.

The ultimatum came after Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria, was assassinated along with his wife in Serbia. On July 23, 1914 (about a month after the assassination), the government of Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia. Briefly, the ultimatum demanded that Serbia would ...

• allow Austria-Hungary to conduct an investigation into the assassination;
• stop all anti-Austrian propaganda being circulated in Serbia;
• eliminate all terrorist groups such as the Black Hand, which was the group believed to be responsible for the archduke's assassination.

The government of Austria-Hungary demanded an answer from Serbia's government within 48 hours, or war would happen. And war did happen -- a conflict that ended up involving many other countries, which we now call World War I.

Answer 2

Austria issued a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by, heir to the Austro - Hungarian throne that was currently being held by Franz Josef.

Following the assassination of the Archduke, Austria waited three weeks before issuing its formal response. The ultimatum was presented by the Austrian government to Belgrade on Thursday 23 July 1914 at 6 p.m. and a response was demanded within two days.

In spite of Serbia conceding to virtually all the demands of the ultimatum, Austria went on ahead to declare war on Serbia on July 28.