Timeline (No Schlieffen Plan)

1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary is assasinated by a Serb militant, Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo in the Austrian province of Bosnia. Austria presents a number of demands to Serbia, all but one of which is accepted, Austria uses this as an excuse to declare war. Through a network of alliances, Russia, France, Germany and Montenegro were soon involved. Britain says it will only intervene if Belgium is threatened. On the Eastern Front Germany deal several crushing defeats to Russia, but the Austrian armies are outdated and decrepit and the end of 1914 sees Russia on top in Galicia. In Serbia an Austrian army tries to invade but is repulsed by Montenegrin and Serbian forces. On the Western Front German troops initially advanced far into France but were halted at the Batlle of the Marne.