between Serbia and Austria‚ turning a small battle between countries into a massive world war. In the political cartoon‚ people representing Serbia and Austria are at the front having an argument on the brink of becoming physical. Behind them‚ a man representing Russia is threatening Austria with retribution if they harm Serbia. Behind Russia is Germany‚ demanding Russia leave Austria alone.
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justified in making Germany take the blame for WWI because Austria and Hungary were the countries who had started war with Russia‚ France and Serbia. Germany entered the war and fought for Austria and Hungary because they were bound by treaty‚ in fact Germany called a cease fire but Austria and Hungary kept battling. Austria and Hungary were the countries who made Serbia and Russia angry‚ not Germany. Austria and Hungary wanted Serbian land because they had just gained vast amounts of land from the Second
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Article 231 in the Treaty of Versailles says the First World War was “the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies”. Survey the causes of the First World War. Was the wording of article 231 an accurate assessment? The wording of article 231 in the treaty of Versailles is an accurate
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Austria-Hungary Central Powers = Germany and Austria-Hungary The Triple Entente = France‚ Russia‚ Britain Militarism Alsace and Lorraine “Powder keg” Start of Great War: conflict between Serbia & Austria-Hungary Archduke Francis Ferdinand Ultimatum Mobilize General Alfred von Schlieffen Neutrality • By 1914‚ Europe had been relatively peaceful‚ but not
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military in order to feel a sense of protection. The main cause of WW1 was the attack against Franz Ferdinand‚ who was the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary had control over Serbia‚ and Serbs did not like this. The Black Hand‚ a Serbian terrorist group‚ wanted Serbia to be free from Austria-Hungary’s rule. This caused WW1 because the nationalism in the Black Hand drove them to attack Ferdinand in order to try and gain back Serbia’s control in its land. The goal of
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principle. He wanted Austria to punish Serbia. He thought that he world would be sympathetic about it. Germany was responsible for the outbreak of world war I because Germany did not fully explain what did the
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his latest addition to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian Serbs resented Austrian rule and sought the protection of independent Serbia. It was one of these Bosnian Serb groups‚ the Black Hand‚ that assassinated the Crown Prince‚ Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Austria‚ egged on by her German allies‚ quickly sent Serbia an ultimatum and declared war on the 28th July 1914. A few days later‚ on August 1st‚ Germany declared war on Russia - seen as the champion of the Slav cause
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these countries to gain resources from them‚ but also for influential reasons. They wanted to influence the satellite states which were strategically and militarily important to their empire. An example of this is Austria-Hungary’s desire to control Serbia alongside Russia’s desire to spread nationalism in the Balkans and gain control of the Straits. This resulted in a conflict between these two empires and contributed to international tensions because both empires wanted more power in the Balkans.
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Ottoman Empire that ruled the Balkans was declining. This infuriated Serbia who believed they should rule Bosnia due to their geographical and ethnical similarities. After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914‚ and Serbia refusing the part of Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum that insisted they get to handle how the Black Hand gang (the terrorist group responsible for the assassination) were punished‚ Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia which then dragged in the rest of the alliances. Because of the
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On June 28‚ 1914 the archduke or Austria and his wife visited the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. During their visit there was two attempts on taking the archduke’s life by the Serbian militants. The first attempt was they threw a bomb at the car the archduke’s were arriving in town in. But obviously the bomb bounced off the car and failed to injure the archduke’s. Later the same day the archdukes were on the way to the hospital to visit an officer who had got hurt by the bomb incident early
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