How to defend Serbia is WWI?

Question

I need to write a speech about how Serbia didnt start world war I. I personally find this difficult because in my opinion we need start the war killing Ferdinand.

Help me out, on how to defend and how to attack the other countries.

Answer 1

First of all, while the person who killed the Archduke was a Serbian, Serbia the country didn't do it. Second, Serbia was quite willing (after some prodding by the Russians) to cooperate with the Austrians in going after the group responsible for the attack. Austria Hungary was anxious to crush Serbia, and used the assassination as a pretext for war more than anything else. Russia tried to keep the war from starting by balancing the carrot (pressuring Serbia to make concessions to AH) and the stick (If A-H attacked Serbia, Russia would fight, and Russia was significantly stronger than A-H). The Russian approach failed only because Germany goaded A-H to fight by offering a blank check guarantee to A-H that Germany would support them no matter what.

Answer 2

well, first of all, Serbia and Austria were rivals in pork export, they had so called "custom war" going for 7 years....then there was this big anexion crisis...after Turks fled Balkans Serbia who financed Bosnia&Herzegovina rebelion (dominant population in those provinces were Orthodox Serbs at the time)was prevented by Austria to unite Serb population in one state....
Italy had its interests on Balkans,too..(that`s how the state of Albania came to exist)...
Serbia was winner in two Balkan wars (started it`s economical reinessance), so the "qui bono" question has to be asked... Gavrilo Princip did pull the trigger, but who placed gun in his hands? Official Austrian version was that it was done by major Dragutin Dimitrijevich, aka Apis, who was an officer in Serbian intelligence service, and who participated in murdering king Aleksandar and his wife Draga 10 years prior to Sarajevo...
And, so Austria demanded to investigate the assasination on Serbian teritory with no regards to its sovereignity (not very peacemaking effort, don`t You think?)....
So, that would be the cause....but what are the reasons for Big War?
Ethiopia for Italy....
"Drang nach Oesten" (trip to East) for Germany....
Expanding territories for Austria, becoming dominant on Balkans...
North Africa for France......
Asia for Japan........
Paciffic for USA.....
Arabia for Turky.......
Caspic region and Mediteranian for Russia......
A little bit of everything for Great Brittain....
And the show could beggin....
Just as an information:At the end of the war, Serbia lost half of it male population, and 30% of complete population...