Austrias Involvement

Austria’s Involvement in WWI
World War One is said to of been started with the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on June 28th, 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip. However we are still looking for the real reason this world war we are going through broke out. Austria was now at war with Serbia and allied with other countries to form stronger ties. Austria first allied with Hungry and then there was a dual-alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary to protect them from Russia who was allied with France. Austria made the first move on this war by bombing Serbia’s capital. Austria had a much larger empire than Serbia and a bigger advantage with that. Austria was firmly supported by its ally, Germany, and at one point threatened to invade Serbia if they persisted in their demands that Austria cede a portion of Bosnia-Herzegovina to Serbia. In December 1912, the Austrian Chief Of Staff wrote a letter explaining the danger to Austria-Hungary of the ambitions of the Slavs. 'The unification of the South Slavs race is one of the powerful national movements which can neither be ignored nor kept down. The question can only be, whether that unification will take place within the boundaries of the Monarchy - that is, at the expense of Serbia's independence - or under Serbia's leadership at the expense of the Monarchy.'
Serbia is small but they are mighty, but it would be at the cost to Austria of all its south Slav provinces, and thus of almost its entire coastline.

By, Cassi Kaiser