... the Austria-Hungary state less stable. A discussion took place concerning an appropriate response from the Austria-Hungary governments, to the Serb government. They realised this might ultimately involve a military attack, but were worried that the Russians might intervene on the side of the Serbs ... of the Germans. So it came to be that a note was sent to the Serb government from Austria-Hungary. In it they demanded the suppression of anti-Austrian propaganda in Serbia, the dissolution of the Serbian Nationalist Association (Narodna Odbrana), the purging of officers ... over the ulti...

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... First, there was the nationalism of the different nationalities in Austria-Hungary, which lead to threats to the stability of the Austrian Empire. This situation made the government especially alert to confront and extinguish any direct or indirect threat to its power. But this also lead the Austrians to ... war was to inevitably break out. The "blank cheque"- Germany's support to Austria After the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the Austrian government saw their great opportunity to take over the kingdom of Serbia, which was becoming a potential dangerous neigh...

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... persuaded not to join Austria-Hungary in their war against Serbia. If this had been done Russia and Serbia, in my opinion, would have crushed the Austrian-Hungarian Govt. bringing an end to the First World War before it even began. By the late 1880's there were approximately 2,500,000 Armenian people living ... the Turkish autocracy. Hoping to make European powers aware of their motives, they took over the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul. Groups of Muslim Turks organized by government troops halted their effort by killing more than 50,000 of the Armenian dissenters. The persecution of the Arme...

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• Grade Level: High School

... itself, not one of her colonies. However, two of most well established empires of the period were having problems. Both the Turkish and Austrian empires broke up, leaving them weaker and looking for powerful allies, which Austria found in Germany. This was important as when the ... Austrian Archduke was assassinated, it meant that Germany gave them the "Carte Blanc" meaning "blank cheque" of support. However, imperialism only indirectly caused ... Germany's domestic policy. The historian, Hans Ulrich Wehler argues that with the Socialist movement growing and problems keeping the Reichst...

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... later in 1938 when Germanys seizure of Austria. It was during this annexation of Austria where the Nazis imprisoned German and Austrian Jews into the German concentration camps in Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and Buchenwald. What laid ahead for the German and Austrian Jews was a conjoining path that will be shared with those already trapped within these fences laced with barbedwire. After the invasion ... Korea and are classified by ex prisoners as the modern labor camps from World War II. The camps were started to hold those deemed socially unacceptable; those who criticized the government, ...

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... denied this request, it is believed by some historians that the young operatives sent to kill Ferdinand were not only nationalistic students but also as scapegoats used by the Serbian government to carry out their dirty work. Imperialism was present in Europe for some time before the war broke out, as each of the great powers aimed to expand theirs boundaries ... this reassurance that prompted Austria to declare war on Serbia, which set off a chain reaction of conflicts. This theory is what another historian, Gilbert, believes provoked war, saying that "The Austrian foreign minister was...

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... of maybe not war but certain aggression. Others believed that Germany was simply protecting their resources in case of external confrontation. France and Russia sided with the English and the Austrian Government was unstable with the assassination of the Arch Duke Ferdinand. The way any significant conflict was resolved was acting upon the human natural instinct to defend when felt threatened. Conclusive ... about his concern with France's view of English policy and the approach in which they decide to tackle the problem. The problem mainly being the rising strength of the German govern...

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... a period of 4 years. On June 28,1914, an assassin, Gvrilo Princip, gunned down the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Fernidad. The assassin was believed to be to have ties with a terrorist group in Serbia, this led to the conclusion that the Serbian government was behind the murder . The idea behind the actions of Gavrilo Princip, is that his cause was ... Brest-Litovsk,which ended the war between them, which required Russia to surrender lands to Germany. On November 9,1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 11 was forced to step down from the german government. An armistice was signed (agreem...

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... of money at that time in history was impossible to pay the amount of money was reduced to 132 million marks; which was a lot but not as much. The German government needed to gain money to pay the allies so they raised taxes, but this took to a depressed economy. They had to start printing more money but this brought the value ... of the allies in return for its efforts during the war they were promised large amounts of territory almost reaching turkey. Although Italy did not make huge advances into the Austrian-Hungarian territory, it kept his promise loosing millions of lives and large...

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... the extending of the nation through the building of colonies. The tension among the strong nations of Europe was huge; however, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir of the Austrian throne, in June of 1914 was the last crucial act that led to the war. Following the assassination of their throne's heir, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, who stood ... this time, was shocked but said that he would wait for "actual overt acts" (Danzer 585), and those came in form of the change of the Russian monarchy to a representative government, which made this war now to a fight betw...

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... some sense of the issues and conflicts in the last hundred years of Balkan history, it is important to have some sense of what went before. The Ottoman and Habsburg-Austrian Empire have been traditionally presented together as natural adversaries. Differing religions, location and ideologies have created a natural separation. In the legacy of these two kingdoms, the promises of nationalism gained ... spread over large and expansive territories. According to the principle of national self-determination, the redrawn borders of Eastern Europe attempted to grant as many ethnic groups as pos...

• Word Count: 1973
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate