Teachers know nothing, they just copy from the board.
This is fairly well researched...
Much appreciated. This is what I was trying to understand and more.
Conrad the general chief of staff tried the get the Empire to wage war upon Serbia no fewer than 18 times but was thrawted by the peace party every time.
Who was the leader of the peace movement in A-H?
Franz Ferdinand.
His assassination was used as an EXCUSE for war
What you're taught in school is BS. The real reason is that every country on the European continent relied upon mobilizing conscripts, which required 30-60 days to call up their soldiers so that they'd be better defended than a Swedish nunnery. There was no way to rush this. This created a perpetual tinderbox in Europe because everyone was afraid that their neighbor(s) would start mobilizing in secret and then steamroll them while they were defenseless. This was very similar to certain parts of the Cold War where anemic second strike capabilities escalated tensions. The Germans came up with the Schlieffen Plan to mobilize in secret, get the jump on France, and knock the French out of the war before they could mobilize. This would have left Germany in a much better position of only fighting a one front war. It very nearly worked, and would have succeeded if the Low Countries had rolled over as expected.
Why does he matter?
His death triggered various treaties between Austria-Hungary's allies and allies of Serbia. These commitments, along with ulterior motives and egos, dragged a whole continent to war. The sad thing (among a whole string of tragedy) is the Archduke was sympathetic to the Serbs.
Aaahhh yes, the evil (((serbian))) killed him! Cohensidence once again
Do you have any proof Princip, a Serbian Orthodox Christian, was Jewish? I'd imagine being born to Serbian parents and describing himself as a Yugoslav nationalist would make it difficult for him to not be a Slav.
Wrll he was part of an organisation called the "young slavs", not too different from the young turks, who were jew led and aimed at genociding armenians... So yes I do believe itnis indeed (((princip)))
It was less about wanting to go to war and more of a "Well, the papers we signed say that in this situation, we go to war, and every one of our friends has to help"
To answer your question, it's the same reason a white farmer in Ohio picked up a gun and fought a war about black people, even though he has never seen once in his life: the government told them to.
The Jew Communists killed Archduke Ferdinand
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