... the murder. This is where Austria became involved in the outbreak of the war. Following the discovery, Austria left Serbia with an ultimatum. This ultimatum demanded a full investigation into the assassination and went to say that the Serbian government stop supporting propaganda, etc. All the stipulations of the ultimatum were accepted by the Serbian government, except for one, which gave Hungarians the right to punish those Serbian officials suspected of having been involved in the crime. Refusing to accept this stipulation, the Serbian government refused to accept the entire ultimatum. This refusal caused Austria to declare war on Serbian, on July 28. Although historian John G. Stoessinger says in Why Nations Go To War, that the German Kaiser wanted Austria to punish Serbia as quickly as possible, historian Sidney Bradshaw Fay argues, in The Origin of War, that Germany became involved in the war because they were being true ...

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