Who started WW One?

Austria-Hungary

Posted on April 10th, 2013 by admin

… Austria-Hungary made the conscious decision to launch a Balkan war in order to reduce Serbia to the status of at best a semi-protectorate, and to appeal to its ally in Berlin for support in case the Austro-Serbian conflict escalated into a general European war. Unfortunately, Austria-Hungary’s culpability for the start of the First World War has been overshadowed for far too long … [Holger H. Herwig. Canadian historian]

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