They made Germany take the blame because Germany was the most aggressive, although Serbia had really started it by assassinating the new Austria-Hungarian King. This was followed up by Russia warning Austria that if they attacked Serbia, Russia would attack Austria-Hungary. A-H called Germany to support them if Russia helped, then Russia called French for support. When French realized they would lose, they called Great Britain who didn't really want to join, but joined in. Later on in the war, Austria-Hungary left the war, leaving Germany on it's own. Soon, Great Britain, France and Russia began losing vs Germany and Italy who joined Great Britain later on as Germany began losing when America joined
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Herbert Henry Asquith was prime minister of the UK from 1908 - 1916.
David Lloyd George was prime minister of the UK from 1916 -1922
The main leaders of the army were General Douglas Haig (later Field Marshal) and John French.
The military helped to make the first world war break out and the countries who were fighting felt intimidated by them and they started another war inside of the first world war which lead to militarism being on of the causes of the outbreak.
what countries wre defeated in world war 1
militarism means the improvement of countries navals or armed forces. countries were upgrading their armed forces, which led to the people becoming afraid because they thought that there was going to be a war
The Balkan region was actually known as the Powder Keg of Europe prior to the start of World War I. There was increasing tension between the countries in the region, and growing nationalism.
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