By Emma Leslie

The Austrians delivered an ultimatum to Serbia that was almost guaranteed to be turned down by Serbia, but in the event Serbia accepted almost all the points. Austria then declared war on the grounds that it had not been accepted in its entirety. It has became fashionable (at high school level) to claim that the Austrians had been looking for an excuse to declare war because of lingering disputes between the two countries. It is probably more accurate to say that Austria was trying to clip Serbia's wings and deny it a coastline. On July 5, 1914, Germany (which had reasons of its own for a war) had given Austria a "blank check", or unconditional guarantee of support in its actions against Serbia.

soldiers and civilians were affected by the Vietnam war because when the soldiers got home they were not appreciated and a lot of them turned to drugs and alcohol and the civilians were being drafted into the army so they were not excited about that and the hippy revolution played a big part because their motto was basically "freedom "so you basically had three things going on including racism so this was one of the Americas darkest moments in history.

Dark Green: Allies before the attack on Pearl Harbor Light Green: Allied countries that entered the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Orange: Axis Powers