Austria-Hungary Research Paper

In my opinion, Austria-Hungary should be blamed the most for the outbreak of World

War One due to the fact that first, Austria-Hungary took over Bosnia and threatened Bosnians

due to their anger for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand . Secondly, Austria-Hungary

declared war on Serbia due to their agreement with only two terms of the ultimatum. Lastly,

Austria-Hungary decided to cooperate with Germany which ended up with the involvement of

many other European countries that led the world into World War One.

First of all, Austria-Hungary took over Bosnia in 1908. The Bosnian Crisis enraged many

Serbians who believed Bosnia should be a part of Serbia. The awful relationship made between

Austria-Hungary and Serbia created

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Austria’s decision, you can count upon it that German will stand by you as an ally.” He added, “If

war must break out, better now than in one or two years’ time when the Triple Entente will be

stronger.” The quote clearly state that Germany was looking forward to work with

Austria-Hungary for war against Serbia. Furthermore, Germany gave Austria-Hungary a “blank

check” which indicated the agreement of cooperation with Austria-Hungary. Indeed,

Austria-Hungary strongly agreed to work with Germany. Which can be proven by the time period

took for war preparation after the death of Franz Ferdinand until the date of declaration of war

on Serbia. Right after the assassination on June 28th,1914, Germany encouraged

Austria-Hungary to work together on July 6th, which proved that the two countries already had

some agreements with each other. On July 26th, about a month later Austria-Hungary declared

war on Serbia. A question that can be asked is what happened during that few weeks before the war on Serbia? A source from Raffael Scheck, the history professor of Colby College

said:”Austria-Hungary was Germany’s last ally and thus seemed to deserve support at all