1. German aims Balkan crises War
Outbreak of War
German aims
Balkan crises
War

2. WWI Origins debate:
Fay hypothesis (Sidney B. Fay)
Fischer hypothesis (Fritz Fischer)

3. Weltpolitik Mitteleuropa Schlieffen Plan
German aims
Weltpolitik
Mitteleuropa
Schlieffen Plan

4. Schlieffen Plan (1905)‏ Preventative war? Straight-jacket Assumptions
Alfred von Schlieffen

5. Schlieffen Plan

6. Schlieffen Plan (1905)‏ Preventative war? Straight-jacket Assumptions
Alfred von Schlieffen

7. Balkan crises 1908-1913 Austro-Russian Rivalry Serbia
1. Bosnian Crisis (1908)‏
Bosnia-Herzegovinia (1908)‏
2. Balkan Wars ( )‏
1. Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria & Greece) vs. Ottomans
Albania (1913)

10. Wilhelm on the Bosnia-Herzegovina crisis:
“Such a favourable opportunity for disciplining the unruly Serbs will not come again soon.”

11. Balkan crises 1908-1913 Austro-Russian Rivalry Serbia
1. Bosnian Crisis (1908)‏
Bosnia-Herzegovinia (1908)‏
2. Balkan Wars ( )‏
1. Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria & Greece) vs. Ottomans
Albania (1913)

12. Gavrilo Princip ( )
Bosnian national
Serb nationalist
Black Hand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie on day of assassination

13. German “blank cheque” to Austria 6 July 1914
Austrian ultimatum to Serbia 23 July 1914

14. 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)

16. “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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