Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WW1
- Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. (short term)
- The black hand
- Cabrinovic threw the bomb
- Ilic killed the Archduke
- Gave Austria the excuse to invade Serbia
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- He wanted a large empire
- He wanted a navy as large as England
- Felt the he was being 'Encircled' by France and Russia
- Franco-Prussian war
- France was unhappy that they lost Alsace-Lorrane and wanted revenge
- The Balkans
- Astro-Hungary and Serbia were fighting over it.
- Allies
- Split into two groups, England, France and Russia against Germany, Italy and Austro-Hungary.
- France, England and Russia were worried about germanies plans
- Italy joined Germany and Austro-Hungary as it wanted an empire.
- They all thought he war would be short
- Many countries thought that war was inevitable to started war plans (short term)