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It didn't. Austria-Hungary was a huge powerful empire. Serbia was weak and tiny. The one advantage Serbia had was its ally, Russia, but Austria-Hungary had Germany to back it up, which nullified that possible advantage.

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It was a Serb who assassinated the Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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