In 1914, Russian forces began the brutal siege of the Austro-Hungarian fortress-town of Przemyśl (p’SHEM-ih-shl) in this region, which became the longest siege of World War I. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Austrian-controlled region of modern Poland, which lies on the border of Ukraine. A peasant uprising known as this state’s “slaughter” took place in 1846.
ANSWER: Galicia (guh-LEET-see-uh) [or Austrian Galicia; or Galicia and Lodomeria; reject “Austrian Poland” because we said that, dummy]
[10e] Also at the outset of World War I, Oskar Potiorek led an oafish invasion of Serbia in a bungled attempt to avenge this man’s death. Gavrilo Princip assassinated this man in Sarajevo, again thanks to a blunder by Potiorek.
ANSWER: Archduke Franz Ferdinand [or Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria]
[10h] In the years leading up to World War I, the Austro-Hungarian military Chief of Staff was this bonehead, who got Austria to declare war on Serbia and then screwed up basically everything in the first half of the war.
ANSWER: Franz Conrad von Hoetzendorf [or Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hoetzendorf; accept von Hoetzendorf]
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