how was world war 1 started and what does russia have to do with it???

Question

i am doing a project and i have to find a way to prevent the world war and my place is russia and i have looked up everything i can and i just cant fing out anythig. i also have to send in a valid compromise with the other places. i dont know what to do

Answer 1

At the beginning of this century, most European powers made alliances to protect themselves from the possibility of war. Serbia had an alliance with Russia and Austra-Hungary had an alliance with Germany. Russia had an alliance with France. France had an understanding with Britain, and Britain had also guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Also, Russia was supporting "Pan-Slavic" groups trying to separate Balkan areas from Turkish and Austro-Hungarian influence.

A Bosnian Serb separatist assassinated Austro-Hungarian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28 June 1914, as the prince was heading to a hospital to visit victims of a related Bosnian Serb terrorist attack. Although this happened within Bosnia (an Austrian province at the time), Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the attack. Austria-Hungary gave Serbia a list of ten demands. Serbia agreed to all but one of the demands, which would have required the Serbian government to take action against Serbian citizens inside Serbia at the direction of Austrian authorities.

When Serbia rejected the demands, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914. Russia then honored its treaty with Serbia by declaring war on Austria-Hungary. This forced Germany to declare war on Russia and France. France had a long fortification wall along the Rhine River, so Germany invaded Belgium on August 3 in order to get to France by going around the French fortifications. To protect Belgium, Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August.

This left Germany and Austria-Hungary at war with Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium, and Britain by August 1914.

Rampant nationalism in Germany, Serbia, Russia, and France also contributed, as each of these countries thought they had an innate superiority over other countries. This caused each country to overestimate their strength, which made them more willing to risk a war against what they thought were weaker enemies.


One might argue that Russian support for Pan-Slavic groups in the Balkans incited the Young Bosnia group to commit terrorism. But after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the only thing that Russia itself could have done to prevent the war would have been to allow Austria-Hungary to invade Serbia without any Russian response. Russia and Serbia have always been culturally and linguistically close, and it is hard to imagine Russia abandoning Serbia to Austrian invasion.

Answer 2

All of these answers have good information - some things to consider... the Russian military was not in good shape... the Germans had infiltrated the Russian government with spies and knew all about it. If the Russians had kept their military more powerful then it would have had a stronger influence on the Germans. Also, the Czar was not very bright. If the Russians had a more democratic form of government, then there might have been more competent diplomats and military advisors appointed. The administration of the Russian foreign service might have been better and they might have had more influence witht he German government and Kaiser. Because there were a lot of human rights violations in Russia, the Russians and British were not very friendly. If Russia had tried to act more responsibly, then the Brits might have been in closer relationship with them and the problems in the Balkans might not have gotten out of hand. The Russians could have supported the Serbians more strongly against the Austrians right from the beginning. Maybe the Austrians would have backed down and not insisted on such strict conditions after Fanz Ferdnands assassination. The Russians could have come to more peaceful terms with the Turks. When the Turks came into the war on the German side it made life much harder for the Russians who could not use their southern ports because the Turks controlled the access to the Black Sea. If the Turks had stayed neutral, then the whole situation in the middle east would have been different, Russian could have been supported during the war, the eastern front of the war would have been much more important, there wouldnt have been fighting in Palestine and Arabia and the whole modern history of the Middle East and Near East would have been different!

Answer 3

Archduke Ferdinand was murdered by Serbian Nationals and because the whole of Europe had woven itself into blood-brother like alliances a declaration of war by almost any European Country would have led to the same overbearing lunacy!

The Russian Crown was in fact related to the British and access to the west often was at the behest of the Germanic states and this made the Slavic region unstable. in short the only way to avert eventual war would have been to build a United Nations & World Court then and convince all of the dangers and immorality of imperialism!

Answer 4

Russia technically did not. The awesome assassination of Archduke Ferdinand is what's declared to have coused the warfare. some angered Serbians assassinated him even as they took the incorrect turn, it replaced into extremely abrupt and he had no intentions of him being there. This brought about Austria-Hungary to declare warfare on Serbia, now that is the area you want to hearken to, Serbia replaced into like Russia's little sister and they declared warfare on Austria-Hungary good after that incident. in view that Austria-Hungary replaced into area of the major powers Germany declared warfare on Russia. Then tremendous Britain and France joined in and that is common to be the reason behind WWI.