Abstract

On the 28th June 1914 Austria’s Crown Prince Francis Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Because Austria did not quickly attack Serbia, the July Crisis happened. During this time the Reichs-Chancellor of Germany Bethmann-Hollweg was trying to terminate the Austrian punishment against Serbia as the local war in the Balkan. To dot his, it is important for him to close the Russian intervention. But Russia could not condone the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia. Late July the negotiations between the Germany and Rissia were in progress, but were broken off because of exercise of the Russian general mobilization. The diplomatic endeavours of Bethamm-Hollweg, which let the war between Austria and Serbia limited to the Balkan-war, ended in failure, and the foreign policy of Sazonov, that wanted expansion of a war to the European war, won.

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