World WarEssay Preview: World WarReport this essayDBQ ESSAYWorld War I has a debatable issue about how the war was started. Some believe that each nation started it equally but I believe it was from a different cause. Austria-Hungarys harsh act against Serbia and Germanys unneeded declaration of war against Russia and France actually cause World War I. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia to quickly and then Germany declared wars on nations because it was “defending itself” even though it just wanted to gain more territories and use its large military. These rash acts caused the whole world to plummet into the largest war man had ever seen.
Evidence of Austria-Hungarys viciousness against Serbia is seen in the Austro-Hungarian Red Book No. 7 sent to Serbia on July 23, 1914. It says that the Royal Serbian Government must not allow any propaganda against Austria-Hungary and “to accept the collaboration in Serbia of representatives of the Austro-Hungarian Government for the suppression of the subversive movement.” The Austro-Hungarians were demanding too much from the Serbians. They were saying that they could not allow freedom of speech in their country and that those organizations against Austria-Hungary had to be suppressed. This was too much to ask from the Austro-Hungarians and when the Serbians didnt accept it, they went to war.
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6.18.3.1.1 : Dm. Köldermann: Austrian State Department has “No evidence of a major military conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia after 1939.
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“The Austrian Federation for the Prevention of War [the “Austrian Institute on the History of the Nazi Germany”] says an anti-fascist movement has joined the “Austrian Federation for the Prevention of War” by launching its “Freedom Action and Resistance to the Right to Peace”, a movement organized by the Austrian-Hungarian Federation for the Prevention of War, in order to encourage peace and good relations between the governments of Austria-Hungary and Serbia and to urge them to take a different course, taking the fight to Austria-Hungary.
“Freedom Action and Resistance” has been supported. The Social Movement for the Freedom from War (SSF)
(see also The Austrian Forum) has said that it is in Austria’s “interest” to ensure peace and good relations with the “Austrian Federation for the Prevention of War”.
– SSF, Social Movement for the Freedom from War – ‘Kropotek p. 1521,’ “Australia-Hungarians Fight For Freedom Against Austria-Hungary”, in Kropotek p. 1522, May 15 2012,
[17] S. K., ‘L’Osservatore Romano V. Ombudsmano’.
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The Social Movement for the Protection of Civil Rights, ‘Ceux Pompidou’
(see also “Freedom Action and Resistance”, ‘Ceux Pompidou”, April 2012,
[18] S. K., ‘L’Osservatore Romano V. Ombudsmano’.
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On April 6, the ‘Freedom Action and Resistance’ groups (also called “Freedom Action and the Freedom from War)”, which had taken the initiative of “Freedom Action and Resistance” , launched a propaganda campaign calling “Austria Must Not Let the Free States Rule”, in which it called for all countries to “set aside and separate” Austria and the Serbia-Hungary-Belgrade-Rostovian border areas, “which have been declared to be ethnically and religiously neutral.” A list of countries has been published in “Mensselpolikit” at: http://www.muslimenews.org/article/2012/10/13/muslimenews-mag-pope-parlophone-migrants-report-the-new-strategic-partnerries-on-freedom-action
That war caused Russia to start mobilizing its troops and Germany saw that as a threat. They decided that they would use their Schlieffen plan and would attack first France and then Russia. This then caused all of the other nations to go to war and start the World War. In The Century of Total War by Raymond Aron tells of how Germany was the main source of starting the war. “The rise of Germany, whose supremacy France dreaded and whose navy menaced England” had become the cause of the war. This explains why Germany and their army and supremacy helped to start tensions and the war.
Finally, at the end of World War I, in Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty, Germany accepted “the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing the loss and damage.” Germany even admitted in the end that they and their allies had started the war and were responsible for the loss and damage caused during the war. That piece of evidence truly justifies Germany and Austria-Hungary to be the causes behind World War I.
Although it appears that other factors started the war, Austria-Hungary and Germany were the two countries that truly started it because of their rash and destructive movements against the other European nations. Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia and then Germany set the Schlieffen plan into motion against France and Russia and cause great loss. Germany and Austria-Hungary took the blame for the start of the war, and they in fact, truly did start it.