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Authors: Sean McMeekin
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Adlerberg (General),
194
,
203
,
209
Aehrenthal, Alois Lexa von,
4
,
322
Albertini, Luigi,
245
Albert I of Belgium,
324
,
361
,
373
Alexandra (tsarina),
159–160
Alexandria
(yacht),
147–148
,
164
,
166
Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907,
148
,
155
Apis.
See
Dimitrijevitch, Dragutin (“Apis”)
Artamonov, Viktor,
50–51
Asquith, Herbert Henry,
328
,
329
,
330
on German diplomacy,
279
information from Churchill on naval premobilization,
251
news of invasion of Belgium and,
374
response to news of imminent war in Europe,
313
support for intervention/war,
281
,
331
,
332
,
356
,
358
,
360
,
363
,
364
,
365
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand,
20
Austrian response to,
28–29
,
30–46
car traveled in,
19
as cause of First World War,
384–390
European response to,
48
first attempt,
14–15
German response to,
78–80
,
85–86
investigation into,
92–94
,
106–107
,
120
,
177
locations of assassins,
12–14
motivation of Serbs involved,
390–391
planning,
6–13
response in Belgrade following,
29
route of motorcade in Sarajevo,
11–13
routes taken by assassins to Sarajevo,
9
Russian response to,
48–49
,
55–61
weapon used,
18
Austria-Hungary
alliance with Germany,
40
assassination as factor in lead-up to First World War,
386
declaration of war on Serbia,
230
,
244–246
,
249
,
396–397
,
400–401
declaration would not annex Serbian territory,
324–325
decline as European power,
37
,
40
general mobilization,
326
isolation of,
84–85
mobilization,
115
,
202
,
218–220
,
248–249
,
267
,
287
,
289
,
326
need for German support/approval,
42
,
45–46
response among government officials to assassination,
30–46
response in Vienna to news of assassination,
28–29
responsibility for First World War,
391–393
,
400–401
Tisza and demands on Serbia,
110–111
,
112–113
,
115
,
120–121
war councils,
106–113
,
136–144
,
325–326
See also
Berchtold, Leopold von
;
Franz Josef I
;
Tisza, Stefan
Austrian ultimatum to Serbia
British and French knowledge of,
155
delay in presenting,
122–124
French and Russian response to,
169–170
Sazonov on,
157–158
Sazonov’s rejection of terms,
186–190
Serbian reply to,
197–200
,
232–233
timeline for,
137
Austro-Serbian conflict, outcome scenarios,
233–234
Balfour, Arthur,
328
Balkan League (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro),
25
,
44
,
84
Balkans (c. 1914), map of,
26
Balkan Wars (1912–1913),
25
,
47
,
384
,
388
Barrère, Camille,
328
Battle of the Marne,
383
Bazili, Nikolai,
292
Belgium
British agreement to defend if German armies invaded,
73–74
British insistence on respect for neutrality of,
315
,
323–324
,
333
,
360
,
368
,
372