HOW EUROPE WENT TO WAR IN 1914

• Authors: Kováč Dušan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study is devoted to the question of the outbreak of war in August 1914. The author analyses the imperial aims of the individual great powers and their war aims. He takes a critical view of the attempts of some authors to transfer the blame for the war to all the participants. According to the author, having imperial aims and starting a war are two different things. The Central Powers played the key role in starting the war in the summer of 1914. Germany used various channels to put pressure on its ally Austria-Hungary to start the war quickly.

Keywords

EN

FIRST WORLD WAR; WAR AIMS; EUROPE

• Publisher: Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 845 – 871

Contributors

author

Kováč Dušan

• Historický ústav SAV, P. O. BOX 198, 814 99 Bratislava, Klemensova 19, Slovak Republic