| Show HOW HUNS FOR 9 WORL 0 INTO A GERMANY FOUND EXCUSE IN THE assassination OF GRAND DUKE FERDINAND students of situation believe this to have been part of plot to embroil europe with the aim of world dominion the prologue in the greatest war in history began with the assassination of the austrian grand duke F ferdinand er dinand while lie he was visiting Saraj evo dos bos nia june 28 1914 the assassin PrIn zip believed to be a tool of pan ann serbian fanatics fled to serbia to which country austria sent a drastic ultimatum on july 23 this accused serbia of permitting and furthering intrigue against aus tria demanded the dissolving of certain societies of a patriotic nature and the prosecution of certain officers and officials as well as a limitation of the privileges of the serbian press to this ultimatum serbia replied promptly agreeing to all conditions but quellion ing tile right of austrian officials conducting inquiries into serbia which that country suggested should be referred to tile the hague tor arbitration in this very temperate and reasonable reply austria found cause for sufficient umbrage to declare war stating that tile alie serbian answer was unsatisfactory serbian vessels were seized almost immediately and on july 2 29 1014 1914 belgrade was bombarded thus began the alie world war with a seemingly trivial incident alil which cli students of the situation now believe to have been part of a carefully prepared plot to embroil europe with the aim of world dominion on the part of mittel r europa july 31 germany sent an ultimatum to russia demanding demobilization which the cz azars czars ars government haughtily ignored the following day germany declared war on russia and invaded luxemburg I 1 august 2 german troops entered belgium despite an acknowledged treaty to safeguard the neutrality of the latter nation which the german premier later spurned as as a scrap of paper this invasion brought an ultimatum to germany august 4 demanding that neutrality be respected spec ted german troops attacked liege and president wilson issued a proclamation of neutrality trie day its demands having lay been ignored 5 declared war on germany august 7 3 tl D ieS ax nans entered liege and the F rench invaded southern alsace italy declared neutrality tra lity r these rhese were the opening movements ts of the great conflict which little by little involved practically the entire world each day was crowded with events of international import france and england declared war on oil austria on august 10 12 and three days later japan sent an ultimatum to germany which soon drew the former nation into the martial whirlpool a conflict marked chiefly by the taking of tsing tao germany germanas Germ anys asiatic colony november 6 after a long siege by far the most important anabali and basically important year of the war was 1917 A forecast of americas entry into the con conflict illet came with the presidents peace without victory speech january 22 and the passage of the fortification bill by congress by february 12 the feeling over unrestrained submarine warfare had become so strained that this country refused to discuss the matter with germany february 14 diplomatic relations were broken and february 20 perniN permission slon was asked by the president defit to arm american which was later granted in the meantime however the world was startled bythe russian revolt and the overthrow of tile the Roni Ro manolY aDoff government america formally recognized the rep republican government of It russia I 1 in a swift panorama of martial happenings pen ings lags all of tile the greatest importance passed the days and months of 1017 1917 the first farst vital event after war declaration being the conscription bill of april 28 for the ral raising sin of an army of half a million then n caino caine the espionage bill to deal with the menace of internal pro german propaganda and intal gue A general war appropriation of 8 and the first war loan were passed herbert 0 hoover was appointed to handle the food situation |
