In the beginning of World War 1, was an alliance between Britain, France, Ireland, and Russia. That alliance was called the Triple Entente. During this alliance, Germany was pairing themselves with Austria-Hungary, also known as the central powers. On June 28th, 1914, in an event widely regarded to have sparked the outbreak of the first great war. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary empire, was found shot to death along with his wife by a Bosnian Serbian named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Archduke had been inspecting the imperial armed forces led by his uncle, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the assassination of Archduke and his wife, Austria Hungary blamed Serbia government for the attack and hoped to …show more content…
Germany had been quite prepared for the outbreak of war. Their military leaders had constructed a sophisticated military strategy known as the Schlieffen plan. Germany began to fight on two fronts with their new strategy. Germany invaded neutral Luxembourg, which was in the west, and soon confronted Russia in the east. A great majority of German forces invaded Belgium on August 3rd-4th. Prompting Great Britain, Belgium’s ally, to therefore declare war against Germany. While in Belgium, Germany assaulted the heavily fortified city Liege. They used only their deadliest and strongest weapons, leaving death and destruction in their …show more content…
Also, the Habsburg Empire declared war on Serbia July 28th, one month after Archduke’s assassination. On July 29th Austrian-Hungarian armed forces began to shell Serbian capitals, Belgrade and Russia. Causing Serbia’s ally to order a troop mobilization attacking Austria-Hungary. France was allied with Russia, so then began to mobilize on August 1st. France and Germany then declared war on each other on August 3rd. The Battle of Marne then began, after the battle of Marne quickly came the battle of Ypres. All the bloodshed and destruction Prompted the United Kingdom to announce news that the North sea would be restricted as a military war zone. Which created a problem for goods travelling to Germany. Germany needed the supplies that had earlier been travelling in the North sea waters, shortly after the United Kingdom restricted these waters Germany had absolutely no way to receive their supplies. Germany angered and concerned for their starving citizens, negotiated over an unofficial Christmas truce.
After the restriction of the North sea, Germany declared that on February 4th, 1915, they would be constructing one of their own war zones around the surrounding seas of the British Isles. German submarines would destroy all potentially harmful merchant vessels passing through. Germany had warned neutral merchant ships that neither their crews or passengers in