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	August 3, 1914 special free edition of the BerlinTageblatt announces "The War with France". N.Y. Public Library Picture Collection
	Draft of the declaration of war on Serbia by Austria-Hungary. Authored by Count Leopold von Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister. ø view document text N.Y. Public Library Picture Collection
	This coded German telegram offered parts of the southwestern United States to Mexico in an attempt to keep the US too busy to worry about Europe. It also announced the start of unrestricted submarine warfare to the German legation in Mexico City. ø view document text National Archives