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The War and the Peace Settlement

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The War and the Peace Settlement

2.) The War and The Peace Settlement

A.) In my opinion, I personally believe that Austria-Hungary AND Germany are most responsible for causing the war. I believe this to be true because it was Germany who promised to back the Austria-Hungary army and being the enormous and powerful army the German army was, Austria-Hungary felt comfortable and declared war on Serbia. This sparked several events which included the general mobilization of Russia, France and Germany. Few days later, the Russian government ordered the Austria-Hungary army to back down and this triggered France to mobilize as promised to back up Russia. The next event is where I put some responsibility on Germany for the start of the war. This is when German troops entered Belgium and Britain ordered them out, however, when Germany refused, Britain declared war on Germany.

B.) The war was not a quick war as most expected because during the years of 1914 through 1917 there was a stalemate in which troops from both sides were ordered to dig trenches in

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