WORLD WAR I

TREATY/ALLIANCE

COUNTRIES

PROVISIONS

UNNAMED

1839 GREAT BRITAIN BELGIUM

EACH PLEDGED TO DEFEND EACH OTHERS NEUTRALITY

THREE EMPERORS'

1881 GERMANY, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

SECRET AGREEMENT TO COME TO EACH OTHERS DEFENSE IN CASE OF WAR

DUAL ALLIANCE

1879 GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY MUTUAL DEFENSE PACT

REINSURANCE TREATY

1887 RUSSIA, GERMANY

NEUTRALITY IN CASE EITHER BECAME INVOLVED IN A WAR

ECONOMIC CRISIS

1894 FRANCE RUSSIA FRANCE LENT RUSSIA MONEY TO WIN RUSSIA'S FRIENDSHIP

TRIPLE ENTENTE

1907 GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE, RUSSIA

AN UNDERSTANDING OVER THE CONTROL OF MOROCCO AND EGYPT (SUEZ CANAL)

---JUNE 28, 1914 ARCHDUKE FERDINAND ASSASSINATED BY WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SERBIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED PLOT BUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY A PLOT CONDUCTED BY AN ORGANIZATION CALLED "THE BLACK HAND", AN EXTREMIST GROUP FROM SERBIA.

---AUSTRIA-HUNGARY FIRST ENSURES THAT GERMANY WILL SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS. RECEIVE A BLANK CHECK FROM GERMANY. THEREFORE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ISSUES ITS ULTIMATUM. (see DEMANDS PAGE 643)

---SERBIA CANNOT AGREE TO ALL DEMANDS BECAUSE THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION OR THE RIGHT TO GOVERN THEMSELVES. SERBIA AGREES TO SOME OF THE DEMANDS BUT NOT ENOUGH TO SATISFY THE DUAL MONARCHY WHO WANT TO USE SERBIA AS AN EXAMPLE TO DISCOURAGE ANY FURTHER NATIONALISTIC MOVEMENTS WITHIN THE DUAL MONARCHY

---JULY 28, 1914 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA

---JULY 29 RUSSIA ISSUES ORDER TO MOBILIZE. GERMANY ASKS RUSSIA TO CANCEL THE MOBILIZATION ORDER. RUSSIA IGNORES THE REQUEST.

---GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA AUGUST 1

---CONVINCED THAT FRANCE WOULD SOONER OR LATER COME TO THE AID OF ITS RUSSIAN ALLY, GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE AUGUST 3

---GERMANY INVADES BELGIUM (ENTER THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN SEE BOOK FOR DESCRIPTION)

---GREAT BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY ON AUGUST 4.

---AUGUST 10 JAPAN ENTERS WAR ON THE SIDE OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, RUSSIA

---ITALY LATER ENTERS THE WAR ON THE SIDE OF THE TRIPLE ENTENTE (MAY 1915)

---OTTOMAN EMPIRE ENTERS WAR ON SIDE OF TRIPLE ALLIANCE (NOVEMBER 1914)

---BULGARIA ENTERS WAR OCTOBER 1915 ON THE SIDE OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE

----RUSSIA/SERBIA-1878 CONGRESS OF BERLIN GAVE DUAL MONARCHY RIGHT TO ADMINISTER BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. COUNTRIES ON SERBIA'S WESTERN FRONT, AND AN AREA WHERE THOUSANDS OF SLAVS LIVED. SLAVS ARE THE SAME ETHNIC GROUP THAT MAKE UP MANY PORTIONS OF RUSSIA AND SERBIA. IN 1908 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ANNEXED BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVNIA OUTRIGHT. THIS ANGERED BOTH SERBIA AND RUSSIA. RUSSIA ALSO STILL LUSTED AFTER THE WARM WATER PORTS THAT IT HAD ATTEMPTED TO GAIN IN THE CRIMEAN WAR. **SARAJEVO WAS THE CAPITAL OF BOSNIA**

USING THE SOME OF THE INFORMATION ABOVE, SEQUENCE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARED WAR ON SERBIA

GERMANS MARCHED INTO BELGIUM

ITALY ENTERED THE WAR AGAINST ITS FORMER ALLIES

SINKING OF THE LUSTHITANIA

ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND WAS ASSASSINATED

GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA

ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM MADE PUBLIC

RUSSIA SIGNS THE TREATY OF BREST-LITOV WITH GERMANY AND LEAVES THE WAR

JAPAN ENTERED THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ISSUED AN ULTIMATUM TO SERBIA

UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR

RUSSIA MOBILIZED TROOPS

GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON FRANCE

GREAT BRITAIN DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY

NICHOLAS II ABDICATES

4 underlying Causes of World War I :

Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, System of Alliance