Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Origins of WW1
- The Alliance System
- The treaties were secret so rival countries
thought they were aggressive.
- It turned local disputes into wider
hostilities.
- The arms race
- Made countries militarily stronger
- Made countries more aggressive.
- The naval race
- The Moroccan Crises
- The Bosnian Crisis
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Triggered the war
- assassinated by the Black Hand
gang
- Gavrilo Prinzip
- They were Serbs led by Colonel Apis
- They did not want him to get the throne (of the
Austro-Hungarian empire) and pacify Bosnians,
making it harder for the Serbs to unite all Slavs
- They wanted to destabilise the
Austro-Hungarian empire and make
public their opposition of the
annexation of Bosnia
- was on the 28th June 1914
- In Sarajevo, capital
of Bosnia