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- Instance of
- international crisis
- Part of
- World War I
- Named after
- July 1914
- Country
- Germany
- Location
- Europe
- Image
- Map Europe alliances 1914-ca.svg
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- point in time
- 1914-07-23
- has effect
- World War I
- Commons category
- July Crisis
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Encyclopedic overview
The cartoon "Der Stänker" ("The Troublemaker", literally "The Stinker"), published in the German magazine Kladdellradatsch on 9 August 1914, portrays a personified Serbia as the instigator of the July Crisis
The July Crisis was a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in mid-1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I. It began on 28 June 1914 when the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as in their best interests, or felt that a general war would not occur), resulted in an outbreak of hostilities amongst most of the major European states by early August 1914.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “July Crisis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.