The was plenty of thing that started World War 1. One of the most major things that started it was a huge terrorist attack. In the late June 1914 is when the attack actually happened. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, visited the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. While him and his wife together was riding down the city of Sarajevo, a Bosnian revolutionary named Gavrilo Princip rushed and quickly and shot them to death.
The assassin was a member of a Serbian nationalist group nicknamed the “The Black Hand”. It happened because the Serbian officials hope to start a war that would bring down the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austro Hungarian government blamed Serbia for the attack and decided the time had come to take down Serbia in order to prevent Slavic nationalism from undermining its empire. And knowing an attack on Serbia might trigger a war with Russia, the Austrians asked there German allies for support. Germany promised to support Austria-Hungary if war erupted.
After that Austria-Hungary then issued an ultimatum to the Serbian government. The serbs counted on Russia to back them up, and the Russians counted on France to help them out. The French leader was worried that they might someday be caught in a war with Germany, so they promised to support Russia if the War started. On the day of July 28, this was the day the Australia-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia immediately mobilized its army, including troops stationed on the German border. On August 1 Germany declared war on Russia. Two days later, it declared war declared war on France. The after that WW1 had started.
WW1 have started so Germany had to come up with a plan. But there plan didn’t really work. Germany had long been prepared for war against France and Russia. IT immediately launched a massive invasion of France, hoping to knock the French out of the war, It would then be able to its troops east to deal with the russians. The German had a error of a massive problem with it. It required the German forces to advance through neutral Belgium in order to encircle the French troops.
The british had guaranteed Belgium’s neutrality. When Germans troops crossed the Belgian frontier, Britain declared war on Germany. So there was teams. They was called the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliances. They countries that was on the Triple Entente was France, Russia and Great Britain formed a backbone of the Allies along with Italy which joined them in 1915 after the other allies promised to cede Austro-Hungarian territory to Italy after the war. On the triple Alliance Germany and Austria-Hungary joined with the ottoman Empire and Bulgaria to form the central power.
Despite the president’s plea, many Americans supported one side or the other. Many of the country’s 8 million German Americans for example, supported the homeland. Many of the nation’s 4.5 million Irish Americans, whose homeland endureed centuries of British rule, also sympathized with the Central powers. In general American public opinion favored the Allied cause. For more than two years. The United States officially remained neutral. During this time a great debate began over whether the United States should prepare for war. Supporters of the Preparedness movement believed that preparing for war was the best way to stay out of conflict. They also argued that if the United States was pulled into the way, it was better to be prepared.
