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In the Black Hand organization, one person who
strongly supported Serbian power sent men to kill
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria . They all
failed to kill him with grenades while he passed
through a large crowd but one of these men, a
Serbian student named Gavrilo Princip, shot him
and his pregnant wife (Sophie) with a pistol.

Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the
assassination. Germany, which supported Austria-
Hungary, said that they should make a list of
things that Serbia should do as punishment for
killing the Archduke. Austria-Hungary was very
strict with these rules, possibly because they
wanted an excuse to start the war. Though Serbia
agreed to most of the ten things on the list, they
could not agree to them all. Austria-Hungary then
declared war on Serbia. This quickly led to a full-
scale war. Both countries' allies became
involved in the war.

Russia joined the war on Serbia's side because
the people of Serbia were Slavic , like Russia, and
the Slavic countries had agreed to help each
other if they were attacked. Since Russia is a
large country it had to move soldiers closer to the
war, but Germany feared that Russia's soldiers
would also attack Germany. Russia did not like
Germany because of things Germany had done in
the past to become stronger. Germany declared
war on Russia, and began to carry out a plan
created long before to fight a war in Europe.
Because Germany is in the middle of Europe,
Germany could not attack to the east towards
Russia without weakening itself in the west,
towards France. Germany's plan involved quickly
defeating France in the west before Russia was
ready to fight, and then moving her armies to the
east to face Russia. Germany could not quickly
invade France directly, because France had put a
lot of forts on the border, so Germany invaded the
neighboring country of Belgium to then invade
France through the undefended French/Belgian
border.

Great Britain then joined the war because Great
Britain had agreed to help Belgium if it were ever
attacked by someone else.

Soon most of Europe became involved.

funny though

weblord1900:
funny though

What you just read is true. The Europeans take their kings and Queens very seriously.