HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Imperial War Cabinet, David Lloyd George, Royal Newfoundland Regiment
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Byng cuire canadian corps (cef) party of bef. In germany, there is a disposition to believe that conferences are not going to go well so in june 1914, there is an issue in the balkans and the. Austria declares war on serbia; serbians are backed by. Russia; austria is backed by germany; germany declares war on russia; russia is an ally of france; france and germany declare war . These alliances are publicly known however the british alliance with france is unknown (the french ambassador meets with british parliament) The actual cause of the war was that in order to get to france, the germans went to. Borden was playing golf in muskoka he returns to ottawa to find that his minister of militia sam hughes was in a state of great excitement. This is a very different war form the south african war and from various imperial expeditions there had not been a serious war since 1815.
