German aims Balkan crises War Outbreak of War German aims Balkan crises War
WWI Origins debate: Fay hypothesis (Sidney B. Fay) Fischer hypothesis (Fritz Fischer)
Weltpolitik Mitteleuropa Schlieffen Plan German aims Weltpolitik Mitteleuropa Schlieffen Plan
Schlieffen Plan (1905) Preventative war? Straight-jacket Assumptions Alfred von Schlieffen
Schlieffen Plan
Schlieffen Plan (1905) Preventative war? Straight-jacket Assumptions Alfred von Schlieffen
Balkan crises 1908-1913 Austro-Russian Rivalry Serbia 1. Bosnian Crisis (1908) Bosnia-Herzegovinia (1908) 2. Balkan Wars (1912-1913) 1. Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria & Greece) vs. Ottomans Albania (1913)
Wilhelm on the Bosnia-Herzegovina crisis: “Such a favourable opportunity for disciplining the unruly Serbs will not come again soon.”
Balkan crises 1908-1913 Austro-Russian Rivalry Serbia 1. Bosnian Crisis (1908) Bosnia-Herzegovinia (1908) 2. Balkan Wars (1912-1913) 1. Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria & Greece) vs. Ottomans Albania (1913)
Gavrilo Princip (1884-1918) Bosnian national Serb nationalist Black Hand Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie on day of assassination
German “blank cheque” to Austria 6 July 1914 Austrian ultimatum to Serbia 23 July 1914
War 28 July Austria declares war on Serbia 30 July Russia mobilizes 1 August Germany declares war on Russia 3 August Germany declares war on France 4 August Germany invades Belgium 4 August Britain declares war on Germany (*Italy remains neutral)
“The lamps are going out all over Europe “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall never see them lit again in our lifetime”. -Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary 1914
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