HIST 274 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Trench Warfare, Dreyfus Affair, Joseph Joffre
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Monday february 29, 2016: world war i. Republic and domestic problems ( dreyfus affair) 1910 - european international relations in extreme tension, more so than at the time of napoleon. Locked into rigid alliance system - germany and austria vs. russia, france and britain. Smaller countries attached to these big alliances. Alliances guaranteed their borders - each country committed to going to war to protect their allies territory and borders. Rigid system - automatically require countries to go to war to protect borders. Rigid system turned a regional conflict into a european wide and world war. Small dominos brings down the big dominos. June 28, 1914, assassination of austrian archduke ferdinand. Archduke visiting sarajevo in bosnia, killed by a serbian nationalist. Serbia thinks they have rightful claim to sarajevo and surrounding territory, but. Summer 1914 + : under austro-hungarian empire. > russia vs austria (declares war on austria july 29, 1914)
