Serbias involvement

Serbia’s Involvement in WWI

Serbia is said to have started this world war. It is unclear whether or not they actually did assassinate the archduke of Austria, but Serbia is being blamed for it. There is some evidence that Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević ordered the assassination and seven assassins shot the archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Chotek and wounded twenty others. Serbia was the first country to be attacked. The Austria-Hungarian Empire began bombing Serbia’s capital. Serbia fought back, even though the Austria-Hungary Empire was more than seven times the size of Serbia’s. Serbia has poor soldiers and lack of equipment, but they have experience which helped them a lot. Most of the Serbian males have a sense of martial combat. Even though Serbia is small and very poor they have been fighting hard for many years.
In 1909 Austria-Hungary had demanded Serbia comply with its March 1909 declaration to the Great Powers to maintain good neighborly relations with Austria-Hungary. Serbia responded by mobilizing its army. Serbian reservists accidentally crossed onto the Austro-Hungarian half of the river at Temes-Kubin and Austro-Hungarian troops fired into the air to warn them off. Overstated reports of this incident were used to persuade Emperor Franz-Joseph to give the final go ahead to formally mobilize the southern Austro-Hungarian Army and declare war against Serbia.

By, Cassi Kaiser