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Originally Posted by nebulosity.
The problem was when Serbia declared war on (Austria?) it started a chain reaction as each county was forced by it's treaties to enter one of the sides, at first Britain (who wasn't bound by any treaties) was quite happy to let them fight it out by them selves but when Germany stopped playing by the rules and attacked Belgium for no reason Britain was forced to declare war against Germany which meant war against her allies as well (Turkey, etc)
Anyway I think thats how it happened  if your interested read THE WORLD IN CRISIS by Winston Churchill, awesome reading.
Jo |
Actually Austria declared war on Serbia. After the Archduke was assassinated they made lots of demands on Serbia that the Serbs nearly completely agreed with but Austria was looking for any excuse to invade and the minor issues that Serbia held out on, were taken as a pretext for war. It then escalted with Russia supporting Serbia, Germany then supported Austria, France supported Russia and Britain came in after germany invaded Belgium.
Malcolm