Short-term causes of WWI (1905-13)
... Russia with contingency… Russia demanded support for their own treaty revisions in Bosporus and Dardanelles region ...
... Russia with contingency… Russia demanded support for their own treaty revisions in Bosporus and Dardanelles region ...
To what extent would you consider that World War One resulted from
... It could never be denied that both the British Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey as well as the French President R. Poincare had made an attempt to settle the July Crisis peacefully. Their efforts failed because of human folly, In fact, some historians had blamed the French for not exerting influen ...
... It could never be denied that both the British Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey as well as the French President R. Poincare had made an attempt to settle the July Crisis peacefully. Their efforts failed because of human folly, In fact, some historians had blamed the French for not exerting influen ...
July Crisis
The July Crisis was a diplomatic crisis among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914 that led to World War I. Immediately after Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, a series of diplomatic maneuverings led to an ultimatum from Austria-Hungary to the Kingdom of Serbia, and ultimately to war.The assassination had been carried out by those wishing to unite all of the territories with majority South Slavic population not already ruled by the Kingdom of Serbia or Kingdom of Montenegro. Austria-Hungary's post-assassination ultimatum was part of a coercive program meant to weaken the Kingdom of Serbia's threat to take control of the northern Balkans and its significant Southern Slavic population, especially the Bosnian Serbs. This was intended to be achieved either through diplomacy or by a localized war if the ultimatum were rejected. Austria-Hungary preferred war, though István Tisza, the prime minister of the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, hoped that the ultimatum would be reasonable enough that it would not be rejected outright. A month after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, thus initiating World War I.