Blame for WW1
The blame of starting World War One is an issue that until today is still not resolved. Many historians as well as commissions tried to find the country or person responsible for the war but their findings are very different. This issue is unresolved because no one person, event or country is fully responsible for the outbreak of war; it was the actions and circumstances that existed before the war, between the countries that fought, that triggered the outset of World War One. Sidney Bradshaw Fay was one of the people who wrote about the guilty party of the First World War. Fay states that none of the European countries wanted war however in each of the countries, political and military leaders did certain things that lead to the declarations of war and the mobilization of troops. These leaders also failed to delay the onset of war. According to Fay each country was, to some degree, guilty of the war. Fay wrote that Austria was more responsible for the immediate cause of the war than any other country. He writes that Austria was acting in self-defense against the eroding "Serbian and Jugoslav agitation which her leaders believed threaded he existence". Also after the shooting of the archduke, Count leopard von Berchtol
On july 25, Sir Edward Grey proposed mediation but Germany refused stating that this war was an issue or arbitration not of mediation. When Serbia looked for help from Russia the two countries became allies. Germany also thought that war was "a good means of dealing with the menace of socialism, which seemed to be steadily increasing," wrote Schmitt. According to Schmitt, Germany was at fault because they felt that they could win the war on the assumption that England would remain neutral; but England did join the army on the opposing side. Fay wrote "If early in the crisis, he had acceded to the urging of France and Russia and given a strong warning to Germany that, in a European War, England would take the side of the Franco-Russian Alliance, this would have led Bethmann to exert an earlier and more effective pressure on Austria. According to Fay German mobilization was an act of self-defense and Germany did not at all want war. But Germany mobilized before they received Serbia's agreement to the ultimatum. The president was very supportive and did not try to restrain Russia from "military measures which he knew would call forth German counter-measures and cause war", wrote Fay. Pashitch the premier of Serbia took no steps to discover who committed the assassination. He also wrote that it turns out that Mr. Schmitt also wrote about the cause of the First World War. However during the President Maurice Paleogue's visit to Russia it is clear that he told the Tsar that France would endorse Russia, as an ally in preventing Austria for humiliating or pulverizing Serbia. The other nations tried to have peace talks, however nowhere is it written what each country's reasons were for having these talks. d, the Austrian foreign minister hurriedly declared war against Serbia in order to forestall all efforts at mediation. Pashitch was aware of the plot to kill the Archduke three weeks before it occurred but did nothing to stop the assassins from crossing the boarder.
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