Essay On The Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand

“History is written by the winner because the losers are usually poor and illiterate”- Sir Winston Churchill. Everybody always asked who started the war. The simplest answer is that the immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand propelled the major European military powers towards war. Germany is located in the Central part of the European Continent. Prior to 1871 Germany had been nothing more than a cluster of 25 German speaking states. In 1907 Britain also entered into an alliance with Russia that was already in alliance with France. This formed the triple entente which in turn became the core of the Allies during WW1. Germany was

The first country to declare war in ww1 was Austria-Hungary. That country issued an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Germany was the central powers of the WW1. Germany fought in many battles such, the Siege of Antwerp 1914, battles of summer 1916, battles in the Ypres Salient 1917, British Nation Raids on Zeebrugge and Bstends. There were 3.8 million men that were in the army of Germany. By August 1916 about 2.85 soldiers were serving on the Western front within another 1.7 million on the Eastern front.

Germany was on the losing side of the WW1. Germany lost to the allies in WW1 and suffered huge territorial losses giving to others. “Germany lost because the French army was able to escape the trap set for them by Schlieffen plan, redeploy their forces to the Marne, and halt the German advance in September 1914”. Germany fought battles at Koln, Koblenz, Mainz, Strasbourg, and Melz. Women in Germany increasingly found himself being treated as inferior to the men they worked alongside and those away