Beginning of World War I
The Great War begins
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- in the last video we left off with the assassination of france ferdinand
- archduke francis burden and of austria the air
- the austro-hungarian empire
- and so you could imagine
- the austro-hungarian empire did not take that well
- they already did not and in in joined the kingdom of serbia trying to
- essentially provoke
- this nationalistic movement
- and today view them as this small little week country right below them
- and so they use this to essentially issue an ultimatum that's just a look at
- me and italy
- brain all the people who did this to justice all the people who might have
- conspired with
- the governor little prince it's
- to create to allow this assassination attempt occur and a and if and and do it
- or else and except full responsibility
- and actually the serbians where the kingdom of serbia wasn't no mead will
- was annoyed and no mood to to get into a war with austria hungary and so they
- tried their best to comply
- but their best wasn't enough so then july twenty-eight a month later
- you have the austrians declaring war on the serbians
- austria
- declares war
- declare for
- on serbia
- now up until this point austria the austro-hungarian empires the ok serbia's
- a small kingdom here
- and has some ties and obviously it's a slavic nation so it has some
- linguistic ties with the russian empire the russian empire also had some
- political ties to it
- but russia's not going into a war with the sort of this
- where justified in attacking them they just killed at the air toward the road
- so we're going to go and then russia's probably not interested in after
- creating a a larger
- a larger skirmish year
- and that was a severe miscalculation on the part of the russian another part of
- the austrians the russians were not happy about this they felt close ties to
- the serbians and they felt the need to protect the serbians or you could argue
- that maybe the word they were they wanted to mobile lies just to scare
- the options whatever it might be weather was russia wanted to get into a war
- whether they were really looking to protect the serbians
- or whether they were looking to mobilize to a scare the austrian from actually
- attacking
- the russians began to mobilize
- so the must the russians began to gather their troop
- so the russians
- russians mobilize
- mobilize and now this is where all of the alliance's start to calm into a fact
- if you go if you remember about the alliances we talked about
- several videos ago
- do you go to eighteen seventy nine you have the door wide street between
- germany and austria hungary
- to protect each other for russia attacks enacted for fresh attacks
- or a mobile liza so now germany is like a i i maybe i am obligated to protect
- austria hungary from russia you also have to remember eighteen may do
- the franko russian military convention military assistance both ways india ten
- in the event of attack
- so during the second look you know i we sign this treaty
- and we to some degree army be eager for war because you've been militarized
- thing so much
- and
- again despite russia i also know that france and russia have this alliance
- right over here so germany in quite surprising quickness decides to declare
- war on both
- so on august first
- on august first
- germany
- declares war on russia
- uh...
- pareshaan
- on russia
- and then on august
- and then on august
- uh... against
- august third germany declares war
- france 'cause they know or at least they feel that they can't declare
- warren only one of them and they want to do it very quickly because they didn't
- want to russia a chance to mobilize too much
- and the fact that he will do this so quickly i mean we're talking three
- witnesses three days after austria declares war on serbia and another two
- days declare war in france
- as shows that germany was already in a war footing it's not a joke told the
- sudden invade tour declare war on countries so germany was essentially
- preparing for this and this this right over here gave them
- the excuse
- to essentially declared war
- so they declare war on both of these characters germany against russia
- germany's declaring war on france now
- the easiest way for them to move into france so they're literally going on the
- offense here
- is for them to go through belgium is for them
- is for them too
- go through belgium
- but the germans were where
- there where that there's a seventy five-year-old treaty the treaty of
- london in eighteen thirty nine article seven said that britain
- was to protect the talc neutrality of belgium
- and germany was a no interest to get into a war
- with the british the british had a powerful military especially a very
- powerful of very powerful navy
- the german said hey let's just take on the russians and the french from out for
- now and so that she reached out to the british and said hey you know this
- little treaty that you got here from eighteen thirty nine the seventy
- five-year-old treat you to really take this seriously right i mean if we have
- to go through belgium you're not really going to cannot hold hold true this
- treaty and and the british said no we we actually did that very seriously
- obviously
- the british had didn't want them to the germans to be aggressive you did the
- british didn't want the germans to be able to invade france
- and so when
- in august
- in august for on august fourth
- august
- when germany essentially rolls through belgium
- germany invades belgium
- to to get to france this gave the legal
- justification for the british to declare war on drugs
- british
- british
- declare
- uh...
- intermec
- and so in a matter of only i mean not even and we're talking a few months here
- from the assassination of
- france ferdinand of austria
- usaid chile have all of the major powers of europe and that's will see because
- they had these empires
- and and and and and not too long most of the world as it
- war with each other
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