July Crisis

July Crisis

Introduction

The history of international relations, specifically in the late 19th and early 20th century has been full of events; however, the origin of First World War is bound to such historical happenings. As a matter of fact, the pelt of war has indulged many of the periods of academic in it to study the causes behind such a large scale conflict. Primarily, there are many questions which needs to be answered in order to understand the real causes behind the occurrence of July Crisis. There are many views pertaining to the occurrence of events over the period of time related to such crises. However, some related the causes to the diplomatic exploitation, while for other the vested interests of nations was the real aim behind the eruption of July Crises.

Each and every quarter tries to related unique thesis with this crisis. Among them, the one which inculcates important aspect is that the “things happen because they happen” by A.J.P. Taylor in one of the books. Validity of such argument in terms of whether such crises were unforeseeable or not are debatable. Hence, this depends over an in depth analysis of the events under in the light of different perspectives. Then it can be possible to utter whether the crisis of 1914 happened by nature or was there any possibility of forecasting.

Discussion

The July Crisis was a diplomatic crisis within the many of the powers of Europe in the summer of the year 1914, this, by and large, made the eruption of First World War. As a matter of fact, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by a Yugoslav nationalist in Sarajevo, stimulated a series of diplomatic conflicts and maneuvering. This event, however, lead to a warning to Serbia from that of Austria-Hungary, and ultimately ended up having a full scale war between the two. The prime intention of the war was to debilitate the Kingdom of Serbia through a series of coercive schemes, since this was a major threat to Austria-Hungary's dominance over the northern Balkans, which was consisted of southern Salvic population, including the Serbian community in Bosnia. In order to achieve this outcome, the two options which were floating at that time were either to use active diplomatic channels and to mobilize world communities so that impulsive pressure can be put, or through a local war in case if there is a rejection of the ultimatum put forth.

Istvnan Tisza, the then prime minster of Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, rather preferred the option mainly due to the reason that I do not have the probability to be rejected outright. One month after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, there emerged a full scale First Word War, subsequent to the declaration of war of Austria-Hungary over the Serbia. This, as a matter of fact, changed the fate of the nature of diplomatic relations and culminated all of the world powers into the vicious circle of exploitation and to secure their own vested ...