what lead to stalemate Flashcards
what was the bosnia crisis
Serbia objected to Austria taking Bosnia into their empire with the support of Russia
when did the Bosnia crisis occur
1908
what were the consequences of the bosnia crisis
Russia and Serbia had to back down
Russia starts to build up its army
why were relations bad between Serbia and Austria - Hungary
Serbia was forced to agree and promise to conditions made by Austria hungary that they did not want to
why was Britain brought into the war
in the treaty of London, Britain had promised to protect Belgium. since germany’s schliefflin plan broke this treaty and they were attacking Belgium, Britain had to act.
who was archduke franz ferdinand
he was the air the austria Hungarian empire. the serbian’s did not want this man to rule over them. he was assassinated by a teenaged terrorist group called the black hand
what is an ultimatum
a warning to do something
why did the schliefflin plan fail specifically
france attacked through alsace lorrain using (PLAN 17) and germany had to fight as well as invade
the BEF arrived in France to slow down germany at the mons
and Belgium put up a unexpected fight and slowed down the german’s giving Russia time to mobalise
