Sue Woolmans
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They broke off diplomatic relations on the 25th of July.
Europe was divided into two alliances.
There was the Triple Entente, France, Britain and Russia, and there was the Triple Alliance, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
That meant that any kind of dispute between two nations could just draw in all the others, which is exactly what it did.
Russia mobilized on the 30th of July.
Germany saw this mobilization as an act of aggression, and it declared war on Russia and its treaty ally, France, on the 1st of August.
Now, Germany was particularly wanting to fight France because of the Schlieffen Plan that it had, which was to invade Europe by going through Belgium into France.
And to do this, they would be violating the London Treaty of Neutrality, drawn up in 1839.
And this is, of course, exactly what Germany did, leaving Britain no choice because Belgian neutrality had been broken.
Britain had to join in, and on the 4th of August, they declared war as well.
Franz Ferdinand could see that a war with Serbia would start off all kinds of terrible things around Europe.
He didn't want a world war.
He would have been horrified, absolutely horrified at what happened.
He could certainly see that if Austria went to war with Serbia, then the Russians would pile in and help Serbia.
And, you know, Russia, all these alliances would then bring the whole of Europe to flames, to a terrible war.
And that would also destroy so many of the royal families of Europe, which is what he did.
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