Who started WW One?

The People

Austria-Hungary
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Franz Joseph – Austrian Emperor and Hungarian King
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Count Leopold Berchtold – Imperial Foreign Minister
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Count Alexander Hoyos – Berchtold’s chef de cabinet
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Count István Tisza – Hungarian Prime Minister
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General Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf – Chief of the General Staff
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General Alexander von Krobatin – Minister of War
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Graf Friedrich Szápáry – ambassador in St Petersburg
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Count Laszlo Szögyény – minister in Berlin
Count Janos Forgách – Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry Chief of Section
Karl Freiherr von Macchio – Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry Senior Official
Baron Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen – Austro-Hungarian minister in Belgrade
Count Albert Mensdorff, Austro-Hungarian ambassador in London
Count Miklos Szécsen – Austro-Hungarian ambassador in Paris
Baron István von Burián – Hungarian representative in Vienna
Count Karl Stürgkh – Austrian Prime Minister
Leon Bilinski – Austro-Hungarian Common Finance Minister
General Oskar von Potiorek – Austro-Hungarian Governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina
 
 
 
Germany
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Wilhelm II – Kaiser
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Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg – Chancellor
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Gottlieb von Jagow – Foreign Minister
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General Erich von Falkenhayn – Minister of War
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General Helmuth von Moltke – Chief of the General Staff
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Henry Prince of Prussia – The Kaiser’s brother
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Prince Karl Lichnowsky – ambassador in London
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Wilhelm von Schoen – ambassador in Paris
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Heinrich von Tschirschky – ambassador in Vienna
Count Friedrich Pourtalès – ambassador in St Petersburg
General Alfred von Waldersee – Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Grossadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz – German Navy Minister
Alfred Zimmermann – Under Secretary of State Foreign Ministry
Wilhelm von Stumm – Foreign Ministry Political Director
Klaus von Below-Saleske – minister in Brussels
 
Serbia
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Crown Prince Alexander – Regent
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Nicholas Pašic – Prime Minister
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Lazar Pacu – Finance Minister
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Miroslav Spalajkovic – minister in St Petersburg
Ljuba Jovanovic – Minister of Education
Milenco Vesnic – minister in Paris
Slavko Gruic – Secretary-General Foreign Ministry
 
Russia
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Nicholas II – Tsar
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Serge Sazonov – Foreign Minister
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Alexander Krivoshein – Minister of Agriculture
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General Vladimir Sukhomlinov – Minister of War
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General Nikolai Yanushkevich – Chief of the General Staff
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General Yuri Danilov – Quarter-Master General
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Count Alexander Benckendorff – ambassador in London
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Alexander Izvolsky – ambassador in Paris
General Sergei Dobrorolski – Chief of Russian Mobilisation Section
Baron von Schilling – Foriegn Ministry Head of Chancery
Nicolai Shebeko – ambassador in Vienna
Serge Sverbeev – ambassador in Berlin
N Kudashev – embassy counsellor in Vienna
A Bronevski – charge in Berlin
Basil Strandtmann – counsellor in Belgrade
Sevastopula – counsellor in Paris
Britain
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George V – King of Gt Britain & Ireland
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Sir Edward Grey – Foreign Secretary
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Sir Arthur Nicolson – Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
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Sir Eyre Crowe – Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
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Sir William Tyrrell – Grey’s private secretary
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Sir George Buchanan – ambassador in St Petersburg
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Sir Francis Bertie – ambassador in Paris
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Sir William Goschen – ambassador in Berlin
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Henry Asquith – Prime Minister
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Viscount Richard Haldane – Lord Chancellor
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David Lloyd George – Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Winston Churchill – First Lord of the Admiralty
Viscount John Morley – Lord Privy Seal
Andrew Bonar Law – Conservative Party leader
Sir Maurice de Bunsen – ambassador in Vienna
Dayrell Crackanthorpe – chargé in Belgrade
Sir Horace Rumbold – chargé in Berlin
 
 
 
France
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Raymond Poincaré – President of France
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René Viviani – Prime Minister & Foreign Minister
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Adolphe Messimy – Minister of War
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General Joseph Joffre – Chief of the General Staff
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Philippe Berthelot – Foreign Ministry Director
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Jules Cambon – ambassador in Berlin
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Paul Cambon – ambassador in London
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Maurice Paléologue – ambassador in St Petersburg
Abel Ferry – Under Secretary Foreign Ministry
Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin – Minister of Justice and Acting Foreign Minister
Bruno Margerie – Foreign Ministry Political Director