the possibility of Germany overrunning France, Britain entered the war against them on 4 August, and used the German invasion of Belgium to galvanise popular support. By early August, the ostensible reason for armed conflict--the assassination of an Austro-Hungarian archduke--had already become a side-note to a larger European war.

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (28 June)

At the Congress of Berlin that brought

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