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The Beggining of World War 1 and More

WW1 was one of the biggest wars in earth's history. it was also called by other names,such as: the Great War, the Modern War, the Impirialist War, the Trench War, as that was one of the tactics they used, and it even has an ironic name: The war to End all Wars. Some of the reasons that the war was so immense were: Defense alliances, rivalries, nationalism, and imperialism. The war was meant to be a very small, territorial war. a gang called the "Black Hand", wanted Serbia to be under self rule, and therefore assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austria - Hungary empire. This was not so bad, as he was only archduke, but for many reasons he was actually the closest heir to the throne. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia and declared war on it on July 28, 1914. Since Russia believed in Serbia's cause, it wanted to help it and made a defense alliance with it. thus, Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary. Then Germany, having disliked Russia and having an alliance with Austria-Hungary, declared war on Russia on August 1, 1914. Then Germany declared war on France, which was an ally of Russia, on August 3. One day later, Germany invaded Belgium. The, Great Britian, having an alliance with Belgium, declared war on Germany.