The Parkus Empire wrote:The East Marches II wrote:
You are thinking of the reply for mediation. Austria rejected Serbia's disingenuous counter-offer and prepared to deliver justice.
Austria didn't get the reply until after the deadline. The Austrian representative was deliberately given the run around and kept waiting in Germany until after the deadline and Austria declared war.
That's... not how that happened. At least not as far as I'm aware.
Serbia agreed to 9 out of the 10 demands in the Austrian ultimatum. Austria, which wanted the war anyway, used the refusal of the final demand (it being that Austria could essentially establish its own police force in Serbia) as pretext to declare war.
Kaiser Willie was away on his annual trip to Sweden at the time, and was actually pretty pissed at the Austrian course of action, so I don't believe Austria's declaration of war was forced by Germany.