HIS103Y1 Lecture : Topic 11 The Bismarckian Period
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- keep germany in a majority; majority = security. - isolate france; france could not find an ally nor revenge; - war in sight crisis: g & f. - series of revolt against the ottoman empire: herzegovina, bosnia, bulgaria, serbia; - reform in the ottoman empire fails; russo-turkish war; - congress of berlin: revise the treaty of san stefano (b,a feared the big bulgaria); r felt cheated; - a & r opposing interest in balkans: - the balkans is the only place austrian can revive her power; - however all affiliations there were with russia (religion, ethnicity) - a wished to ally with b proposed another crimean alliance ; - however 1880 british election gladstone: ideological foreign relations, bringing moral and ethnic issue with foreign policy. - gladstone thought, if there was a war to be, it needed to be with ottoman empire. - at this time bismarck approached a and offered the dual alliance.
