1) First is Serbia, then Austria, then Russia Germany, France and Britain.

2) the Theme of the yellow circles is alliance and treaty commitments. Austria and Germany created a “Dual Alliance” because Germany wanted to isolate France and in order to to so Germany made an alliance with Austria.

The theme is alliances because Russia, Britain, and France were in a triple entente. Serbia fits in because they were also fighting against Austria and Russia.

3) The theme is nationalism because they wanted to gain independence from Austria.

4) The theme is imperialism. Britain had so much power and Germany wanted to expand and ended up surpassing Britain. France also wanted to expand but wasn’t very successful.

5) The theme is Militarism. Britain had a “two power standard” and wanted to have double the amount of military forces. Germany and Britain were constantly in arms race, and Germany began to increase their defence budget.

6) It started with Serbia assasinating Austrian leader. Austria gave Serbia ultimatum and Serbia couldn’t fufill their request so they went to war. Germany then goes to war as well to back Austria up. Then Germany declares war with Russia because they are no longer able to keep up alliance. This causes France to order general mobilization to prepare for the predictable war. Germany then declares war on France. Britain then becomes involved because Germany invaded Belgium in order to go to war with France which was a violation.

7) They depict Serbia as a child because Serbia acted on impulse and very childish. They didn’t foresee the big impact the assasination would make. They title seems ironic because they all have so many interconnected alliances and secret treaties but they all end up in war and battling so saying “friendship” is a synonym of alliance but some were broken and certain countries were picking on others.