This conflict focused on the nationalism that a majority of people wanted; as a result, the negotiation of the Compromise of 1867 created Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. This dual monarchy was a way to cope with the nationalism in the empire by establishing Hungary’s own constitution, legislature, capital, and bureaucracy. This creation was a solution to still keep the empire intact and orderly while still appeasing the nationalistic Hungarians, but not the other nationalities. However, the new state was still under the control of a single monarch and a common foreign policy, army, and system of finances.…
1871 all the German states come together and call each other the 2nd Reich or second great empire…
Austria contained dozens of subjugated language groups (including the Magyars, Czechs, Slovaks, Slavs, Rumanians, Serbs, Croatians, etc.), the upsurge in nationalism threatened to tear Austria to pieces. The Austrian government's position as prime reactionary was certainly due in large part to its fear of dissolution were…
Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia showed self-interest, this is because Austria-Hungary made it extreme so it was a win-win scenario for themselves. Because, if Serbia rejected as they did, it gave Austria-Hungary an excuse to invade and take out one of the major problems stopping them from conquering all the Balkan states. But, if Serbia accepted, Austria got to run an investigation into Serbia’s link into the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, this would of most likely caused major problems for Serbia. Therefore, Austria-Hungary making the ultimatum so extreme, where it was a win-win scenario for them showed that Austria-Hungary created the ultimatum so extreme for self-interest. This shows that…
Russia is an ally of Serbia, so when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia did the same. Germany is an Ally of Austria-Hungary and declares war on Russia & France. Alliances made the war gain more participants which led to the title World War. Nationalism is when you stand up for your country. Gavrilo Princip assassinated the prince of Austria-Hungary.…
World War 1 was a huge global battle of the Allied Powers and Central Powers in Europe. It started on the 28th of July 1914 and ended on the 11th of November 1918 and within the 4 years of war, over 16 million people died. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the Austro-Hungary heir) and his wife on the 28th of June 1914 started a chain of events which were to be disastrous. A month later on the 28th on July 1914, Austria-Hungary waged war and invaded Serbia. Russia then came to support Serbia and Germany invaded Belgium while heading to France. Britain then waged war on Germany. The two sides created the Allied powers with Britain, France and Russia, and the Central powers with Austria-Hungary and Germany. As the war went on, more countries joined each side, including Australia. Australians were enthusiastic to help support Britain and join them in the war, but as time passed and many people died, their opinions on war changed. The war ended on the 11th of November 1918 when the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany agreed to an armistice.…
On the Hungarian part of the Empire everyone was forced to learn/speak Magyar (the Hungarian language), this was very strict and in schools teachers could loose their job if their pupils did not speak Magyar. This meant that all minorities being suppressed and felt like they were being treated unfairly. Therefor there were several nationalistic movements demanding political and cultural equality.…
During World War II, Hungary was part of the Axis Powers. Recognizing their potential loss, Hungary tried to defect to the Allied Powers. Given Hungary’s relative location to Germany however; Germany instead overran Hungary to ensure the impossibility of their defection. After the war, the Soviet Union was granted control of Hungary.…
Evidence of Austria-Hungary’s viciousness against Serbia is seen in the Austro-Hungarian Red Book No. 7 sent to Serbia on July 23, 1914. It says that the Royal Serbian Government must not allow any propaganda against Austria-Hungary and “to accept the collaboration in Serbia of representatives of the Austro-Hungarian Government for the suppression of the subversive movement.” The Austro-Hungarians were demanding too much from the Serbians. They were saying that they could not allow freedom of speech in their country and that those organizations against Austria-Hungary had to be suppressed. This was too much to ask from the Austro-Hungarians and when the Serbians didn’t accept it, they went to war.…
One of the world’s most devastating and history-changing wars was caused by the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was next in line for the throne to govern over the Austria-Hungary empire in the beginning of the 20th century, and he was rising at a very dangerous and tense time. In the early 1900s, Austria-Hungary was in a stressful conflict with the country of Serbia. The Serbians wanted the land of Bosnia, in which the Austria-Hungarian empire had annexed into their country, and Serbia wanted to unite all of the Serb ethnic groups to form a country known as “Greater Serbia,” (Bodden 19). They wanted to send a message to Austria-Hungary, and they wanted to show that they meant business. So, the Serbian government…
The system of a Dual Monarchy created more problems than it solved and could have led to pushing Austria-Hungary into the very bad positions they were in. The system enabled the Magyars to oppress Serbs, Croats, and Rumanians which weakened their loyalty to the Monarchy. Overall, their system did work, and had it not been in an unsuccessful war, it may have still been working today, according to Lafore. The circumstances that arose and the political and military decisions that were made during this European era is what led Austria-Hungry to become the Second Sick Man. It was…
The already tense European Nation had a lot of problems. Some of them included problems with immigration, now this may not seem like a problem for a country made up of two, but at the time there were many many diseases, most of them easily contagious and deadly. He was able to fix this with upping some of the medical attention given to the people of his country. He was able to calm down the commotion involving the two countries making up the singular nation known as Austria Hungary. He did have flaws, such as racism against the Bosnians, he was known for thinking of the Bosnians as “Pigs, Hooligans, and…
Devotion from the person to the ambition of their nation is a cause of how the war began. Nationalism within a country so strong, that it causes the collapse of the peace, or the fire to the gunpowder. When royalty is greeted in public, it should be with open arms, warm spirits, and hope of a new beginning. Though, with the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of Austria, this statement becomes a spurious claim. The trusting gesture of Franz to the people he would have soon ruled, soon became the death of him. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 Austria-Hungary had been given the right to administer Bosnia and Herzegovina on the western border of Serbia. Thousands of Slavs lived in that area, but in 1908, Austria-Hungary annexed these ideas outright, which infuriated the Serbs, who hoped to absorb all the Slavs into their nation. Serbia may have been small and insignificant to Austria-Hungary; however, the one small…
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Congress of Vienna was a reaction to the French Revolution, in which they wanted to preserve the monarchies in Europe as well as conservative ways. Nationalistic ideas were surfacing across Europe however the Congress of Vienna did not prevent the nationalism uprisings of 1848. By combining the Netherlands with Belgium, and continuously not giving Poland it’s freedom, the Congress only furthered the nationalistic movements.…
The World War I began as Austria and Hungary and the Ottoman Empire considered as “crumbling empires” because multinational nation unify and divide countries due to nationalism and this lead to Europe imperializing the Ottoman Empire, this was called Balkan Powder Keg, newly independent nations struggle over national boundaries and Russian Pan-Slavism and demands of Serbia. By 1912, nationalism began to tear apart the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. As states in the Balkans Continued to rebel and win their independence for these two empires, they also fought among themselves over the spoils of the wars. These Bloody and fierce wars, along with the fact that Serbia, a Slavic state under Austro-Hungarian rule, dreamed of having an independent state ruled by their own people, led to the Europeans considering the Balkan region the “powder keg of Europe.” In 1914, the nephew of Francis Joseph and heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke of Francis Joseph…