A casus belli (from Latin casus belli 'occasion for war'; pl. casus belli) is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war. A casus...

August 1914, in violation of Article VII of the treaty, was the British casus belli against Germany. British military operations in Belgium began with...

Hamburg in northern Germany to force a loan from it. Peter considered this a casus belli and prepared for open warfare against Denmark.: 220  In June 1762...

or the war on terror—as their settings to criticize those wars, their casus belli, or their effects, others use hypothetical conflicts (e.g. World War...

states mobilized their forces. Israel reiterated that these actions were a casus belli and launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt in June. Jordan, Syria...

Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasised...

circumstances can I allow Japan to become firmly established there. That will be a casus belli." War began in February 1904 with a preemptive Japanese attack on...

elected consul in 31 BC. With Antony's will made public, Octavian had his casus belli, and Rome declared war on Cleopatra, not Antony. The legal argument...

ISBN 978-1-4051-9681-9. Aptekar, Pavel. "Casus Belli: о Майнильском инциденте, послужившим поводом, для начала "Зимней войны" 1939–40 гг" [Casus Belli: about the Mainila...

of conflict but can be implemented to sway public opinion and create a casus belli to declare war. By establishing a baseline lie and painting the enemy...

August, Adolf Hitler told his generals: "I will provide a propagandistic casus belli. Its credibility doesn't matter. The victor will not be asked whether...

Надо ли государству менять свою политику по отношению к продажной любви" [Casus of Venus. Should the State Change Their Policy on the Sale of Love?]. Political...

Bir basın toplantısında komünist şair 17 sene zındanda kaldığını -ne bir casus ve ne de vatanın bir düşmanı olduğunu; kendi halkını sevdiği için onun ekmeğini...

Álvarez-Fernández, Luis de Pablo: Inventario (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones Casus Belli, 2020, ISBN 978-84-947072-8-5 José Álvarez Junco Mater Dolorosa. La...

with the massive resources of the Indo-Gangetic plains. Akbar's ostensible casus belli for warring with Gujarat was that the rebel Mirzas, who had previously...

Cambon and Foreign Secretary Grey. The German invasion of Belgium provided a casus belli and Britain mobilized on 3 August and declared war on 4 August. Wilson...

Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within...

Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948, a fact which was named as a casus belli for the entry of the Arab League into the country, sparking the 1948...

Straits of Tiran blockaded, a move Nasser believed Israel would use as a casus belli. Amer reassured him that the army was prepared for confrontation,...

23 June 1891 – 1 June 1942) was a Czech writer. He was also active as a film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was murdered by the Nazis. Vančura...

company, which infuriated Britain. The so-called "dynamite monopoly" became a casus belli. British imperial interests were alarmed when in 1894–1895 Kruger...

Mexican government's rejection of Slidell, Polk believed, constituted a casus belli. Polk said in a message to Congress: "The cup of forbearance had been...

government to pay it without causing a political storm, was used as an important casus belli for the subsequent British attack.[page needed] During April and May...

Austria-Hungary as an existential challenge and so was viewed as providing a casus belli with Serbia. Emperor Franz Josef was eighty-four and so the assassination...

L'Éclair on 13 December 1894: "the closed court is necessary to avoid a casus belli"; while for Judet in Le Petit Journal of 18 December: "the closed...

the threat of an invasion remained as Russia still actively looked for a casus belli for the invasion, with attempts being made to conduct a false flag...

United States military strategy explicitly states that a cyberattack is casus belli for a traditional act of war. STS-134: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands...

Survival during the Holocaust. Grabowski, Jan (2008). "Szantażowanie Żydów: casus Warszawy 1939–1945" [Blackmailing the Jews: The Case Warsaw 1939–1945]....

Frere wasted no time in putting the scheme forward and manufacturing a casus belli against the Zulu by exaggerating the significance of a number of recent...

crusade had revealed the Byzantine Empire to be weak and also given a useful casus belli for attack. Furthermore, Leo II, the ruler of Cilician Armenia, offered...