the3rd, an entire Parliament meeting was called to order. Grey made a speech whichconvinced the government to go to war if it became necessary. But, they wrote anultimatum to Germany ordering them to demobilize by midnight. Sadly, they waited untilthe next day to send it and less than two hours after Grey’s speech was made, Germandeclared war on France. The next day, while the Germans invaded Belgium, Britain waswaiting for an answer to their proposal. Battle (Chapters 10-22)Throughout all of this, no one thought about Turkey for no one considered them a strongnation. But, unknown to the other countries, Turkey had become strong right before thewar and both sides were rushing to become an ally. All except for Britain who wasdominating Turkey, and in this domination Britain stole some of Turkey’s ships. As aresult, Turkey was looking to become a German ally. They did not become an allyquickly because they were not sure if Germany would win, so they held out. They finallyjoined with Germany because Germany sold Turkey two of their war ships. While thystill had this ally, Germany was still thinking about Belgium. They did not expectBelgium to resist them , but in their efforts to conquer Liege, it was discovered thatBelgium was not going to give up without a fight. Despite that fact that they could notlaunch an offense attack their defense efforts were excellent. During this time, theFrench were tying to take over Alsace. On August 5, the French established aheadquarters in Marne. Before the start of the war battle plans were made which called for the BritishExpeditionary force to cover General Lanrezac’s left flank. But, the British did not haveconscription, and the army in the islands only had six cavalry divisions and one cavalrydivision. A great number of the officials stressed keeping the divisions at home fortraining and then use them to form a b...
