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What caused WW1?

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Hung Nguyen

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1y ago
Updated: 1/19/2024

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbians and sent Serbia an ultimatum with an impossible list of demands. Serbia refused these demands, and Austria-Hungary declared war. When Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia got involved to defend Serbia. Germany, seeing that Russia was mobilizing, declared war on Russia. France was then drawn in against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Germany attacked France by marching through Belgium pulling Britain into war. Then Japan entered the war to support its British allies.

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Hung Nguyen

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