World War 1:

The War to End All Wars



How It Started:

On June 28, 1914 a Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand. The next day on

the 29th anti-Serbian riots started to occur in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina where more than 7,000

people were killed in the riots, died in prison or sentenced to death. The next month in July, Serbia

ordered soldiers to patrol in and around Austria. The next year in 1905, the German General Staff

created a plan called the Schlieffen Plan where German forces went through Belgium (Note: Belgium

was and still is a neutral country). On July 29th the British government handed out notes to Germany and

France to respect Belgian neutrality, France pledged to do so, Germany did not. Kaiser Wilhelm’s

ambassador to London, Prince Lichnowsky told Wilhelm that Britain would remain neutral if France

wasn’t attacked. On the early hours of August 4th, Germany invaded Belgium, Britain gave one last

ultimatum with no response Germany was now at war with Britain and all of its allies.