They thought it would go faster because of new methods of warfare and new weapons. Use most of the German forces to assault Paris and knock out France in 6 weeks, leave a few forces in East Prussia to hold off the Russians while they were mobilizing, after defeating France the remaining armies would be redeployed to the east. Britain and France declared war on Turkey Because of the help given by Turkey to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey. Aug 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg - Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902 Sept 1914 - Battle of Masurian Lakes - Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave help to a German naval bombardment of Russia. Germany did not withdraw from Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany. The British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding their withdrawal from the neutral Belgium. German troops poured into Belgium as directed under the Schlieffen Plan, drawn up in 1905. However, Russia did mobilize and, through their alliance with France, called on the French to mobilize. Although Russia was allied with Serbia, Germany did not believe that she would mobilize and offered to support Austria if necessary. 28 July 1914 T- he Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia. They were given weapons for the assassination by Serbia. This was strongly resented by many Serbs and Croats and a terrorist group, The Black Hand. Bosnia and Herzegovina, had been annexed from Turkey and taken into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 28 June 1914 - Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife.

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