In 1913 a second Balkan war broke out between Bulgaria on one side and Serbia, Greece, Romania and Turkey on the other. As a result of the war (the Treaty of Bucharest) Bulgaria lost land to Romania and Serbia, and Greece kept possession of these parts of Macedonia that they had captured. ...
When German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg was asked why war broke out he replied with a sigh "Oh - if I only knew!" (Ross, 53) This statement implies that there was not just one thing that caused the war there were many. Tensions were building all over Europe prior to the outbreak of World War One. Ev...
Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?". ...
War Plans (1905-1910) Summary By 1910, European leaders expected war. Though they expected battle that was fast and localized, most forward-thinking policymakers planned for war in the near future. Alfred von Schlieffen, the Prussian general and Chief of the German General Staff, developed the German plans for war. Aiming to make Germany the Continent's dominant power, the Schlieffen Plan, as proposed in 1905, provided the framework for Germany's offensive. In the likely event of war with Russia, the Schlieffen Plan, expecting French support for Russia, called on Germany to lau...
