WWI · TURNING POINT ·
July Ultimatum (1914)
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23 Jul 1914 — Vienna hands Serbia a 48-hour ultimatum written to be refused. Serbia accepts nearly all of it; Austria-Hungary declares war anyway on the 28th, and shells Belgrade the next day.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- July Crisis and outbreak of WWI (chapter 3 of WWI)
- Atlas
- The Great War, 1871–1923
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