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The History of World War I
| Mohamed Hany Al Sayed | | British university in Egypt
Mohamed Hany Al Sayed |

[International Politics Compiled Review Document] | The Complied course information, lectures and topics most critical and vital points. This is NOT a summary this is the mere sum up of all the data discussed through the 100 hours through the international Politics course. Class of 2013. PS: read examples and full stories from the compulsory reading booklets according to the availability of time. |

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WORLD WAR I:
World War I also known as the Great War started out by the assassination of the heir of Austria Hungary by a 20 year old Siberian nationalist of a fertility known as the Black Hand. It was very famous as the Grab bag where the struggle for wealth and power through colonial positions.
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Austria-Hungary, unsatisfied with Serbia's response to her ultimatum (which in the event was almost entirely placatory: however her jibbing over a couple of minor clauses gave Austria-Hungary her sought-after cue) declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914 * Russia, bound by treaty to Serbia, announced mobilisation of its vast army in her defence, a slow process that would take around six weeks to complete. * Germany, allied to Austria-Hungary by treaty, viewed the Russian mobilisation as an act of war against Austria-Hungary, and after scant warning declared war on Russia on 1 August. * France, bound by treaty to Russia, found itself at war against Germany and, by extension, on Austria-Hungary following a German declaration on 3 August. Germany was swift in invading neutral Belgium so as to reach Paris by the shortest possible route. * Britain allied to France by a more loosely worded treaty which placed a "moral obligation" upon her to defend France, declared war against Germany on 4 August. Her reason for entering the conflict lay in another direction: she was obligated to defend neutral Belgium by

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