Some historians have suggested that if Grey had made different decisions to those that he took during the summer of 1914, he could have helped stop the outbreak of the First World War.
In the summer of 1914, Sir Edward Grey was the man responsible for Britain's foreign policy. Emperor Franz Josef of Austro-Hungarian and his ally, Kaiser Wilhem II, of Germany, decided that Serbia had to be punished for this crime. The Austro-Hungariangovernment soon discovered that three men in the Serbian Army living in Belgrade had organised the plot. Several members of the Black Hand group in Sarajevo were arrested and interrogated by the Austrian authorities. On the 28th June, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie von Chotkova were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia, causing a domino effect, with each countries allies backing them up, thus bringing much of Europe into the war, and later the US and some other countries from Africa and Asia, making it World War I.
The start of WWI was due to alliances and wars. The reason the allies blamed it on Germany because after A-H declared war they said Garmany told them to The Allied powers were Ireland, Great Britain France, Italy, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Romania, and Russia. The central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman empire. News of this spred throughout Europe and the allies of the countriees also prepared for war. This angered Austria Hungary and they declared war n July 28 1914. Austria- Hungary gave Serbia an altimatum, Let us find people of this gang or war.
He was going on a cruise and told him go ahead he had full support of whatever he wanted to do. Austrian foreign minister Lepold Berchtold sent an envoy on July 5 to Germany emperor William 2 to ask for his support. Although this didn't happen in Seribia the Austrian Hungarians held them acountable. It started because there had been rivalries building up between Germany and France, Germany and Britain and Austria-hungary and started because Serbia wanted the salvs out of Austria hungaryįrancis Ferdenand, heir to the Austrian-Hungary throne, while traveling through Sarajevo, was assasinated by Gavrilo Prencip, on June 28 1914, who was in a 'gang' called the Black Hands. I would like to know How did these complex alliance systems play a part in the origins of World war one? Im lookin for when it started too for my class. Hi! im lookin for why world war 1 started for my class assignment Russia changed sides after the first war. Hitler the come-leader was maddened by that which in turn was the cause of World War two. the British-French-Russian Allie won and blamed Germany for the war(who knows why?) and drew up the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany were to follow. this in turn meant Austria-Hungary tried to make Russia abide to a number or rules, when Russia objected AH declared war on them, France and Great Britain went to Russia's aid, Germany and Turkey went to Austria-Hungary's aid. Slovaks being originally from Russia meant Austria-Hungary suspected Russia had underlying power and wanted to overthrow Austria-Hungary via the Slovaks. this was blamed on the Slovaks of southern Austria-Hungary. That's what I've been taught recently anyway.īecause the duke and heir of Austria-Hungary was assassinated. It caused a lot of conflict because the Germans didn't like the outcome, cos they were going to lose land and money. I think it was because of the treaty of Versailles.