What did Germany do to start ww1?

Answer 1

Germany never did start WW1! (but were blamed for it as they did most of the fighting)

Well, Imagine Europe as an explosive barrel a gunpowder. The French were unhappy about Germany taking some of there land in the 1800. Germany were jealous about Britain's empire and there navy. Germany Tried to gain colonies which annoyed and frightened France, Britain and Russia.

So two alliances were formed just in case there was a war.

There was the Triple Entente which included: Great Britain, France and Russia, (the main three) Italy (Who switched sides as Britain bribed them) and Serbia.

On the other side there was the Triple Alliance which included: Germany, The Austria-Hungry Empire and other smaller countries.

So now Europe only needed one spark to explode, which happened on the 28th of June 1914.

It was a warm and sunny day. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry was on a visit to the town of Sarajevo in the South East of Austria- Hungry. Franz was the heir to the Austria-Hungry throne.

Sarajevo was in a part of Austria-Hungry where Slav people lived. A lot of them hated Austria-Hungry and wanted two separate countries like Serbia.

Some of these people wanted to harm the Archduke to show how much they hated Austria-Hungry. One threw a bomb into the car that the Archduke was in. The Archduke just picked it up and threw it out of the car but hurt some people in a car behind them.

The Archduke wanted to go and see the hurt people in hospital so his driver drove him there. After on the way to the town hall the drive took a wrong turn down a small alleyway. But one of the Slav people had a gun and the car drove to him. He shot the Archduke and his wife. (MAIN STORY.)

Austria-Hungry was angry at Serbia as the Slav people were Serbians. Austria-Hungry declared war on Serbia. Serbia asked Russia to defend them. Austria-Hungry asked Germany to help them.

Then Germany wanted to attack France so, France built a huge wall with guns all along it. Germany just went up in to Belgium to avoid the wall. Britain had sworn to Belgium that they will protect them, so Britain told Germany to get out of Belgium but the Germans were to far in so they carried on going. Then France, Britain declared war on Germany.

And that was the start of WW1