Why Did Germany Start World War I?
Many people think that Germany started world war I. If you google who started world war I you will see many websites and papers that agree with this statement.
Although, no one country stared the war and all of the involved parties are partly to blame. It was Austria Hungary that was mostly to blame. Austria Hungary started World
War I by using war to distract form internal problems, delivering a harsh ultimatum and expecting an answer in three days, and declaring war after all of the demands in the ultimatum were not met. Austria Hungary was having many problems internally. The empire was trying to take hold of all of the Balkan Peninsula and for many years before World War I, Austria
Hungary was at high tensions with their neighbors. In 1912 Austria Hungary …show more content…
The empire was struggling to keep all of these groups under it’s control. The empire saw a war with Serbia and an option to gain more land and to quiet rebellions within its borders. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria Hungary was mad at
Serbia and wanted an excuse to declare war of Serbia. The Austria Hungarian government issued an strict ultimatum to Serbia and expected a response within three days. The ultimatum was comprised of ten primary demands. They stripped Serbia of almost all of its rights as a country and some demands even violated the Serbian constitution. Serbia agreed to all of the demands except two of them because they violated their constitution. (6) In response to this Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia just two days later. (1) Austria Hungary set Serbia up to not meet their demands so
Austria could declare war on them. After Serbia rejected two of the demands on the ultimatum, Austria Hungary was the first country to declare war on another country. Germany had given Austria Hungary what is called a blank check. (5) This means that Austria Hungary could do whatever
Although, no one country stared the war and all of the involved parties are partly to blame. It was Austria Hungary that was mostly to blame. Austria Hungary started World
War I by using war to distract form internal problems, delivering a harsh ultimatum and expecting an answer in three days, and declaring war after all of the demands in the ultimatum were not met. Austria Hungary was having many problems internally. The empire was trying to take hold of all of the Balkan Peninsula and for many years before World War I, Austria
Hungary was at high tensions with their neighbors. In 1912 Austria Hungary …show more content…
The empire was struggling to keep all of these groups under it’s control. The empire saw a war with Serbia and an option to gain more land and to quiet rebellions within its borders. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria Hungary was mad at
Serbia and wanted an excuse to declare war of Serbia. The Austria Hungarian government issued an strict ultimatum to Serbia and expected a response within three days. The ultimatum was comprised of ten primary demands. They stripped Serbia of almost all of its rights as a country and some demands even violated the Serbian constitution. Serbia agreed to all of the demands except two of them because they violated their constitution. (6) In response to this Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia just two days later. (1) Austria Hungary set Serbia up to not meet their demands so
Austria could declare war on them. After Serbia rejected two of the demands on the ultimatum, Austria Hungary was the first country to declare war on another country. Germany had given Austria Hungary what is called a blank check. (5) This means that Austria Hungary could do whatever