HST 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Austria-Hungary, Intec Digital, Absolute Monarchy
8 Dec 2013
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Class relations chancing with emergence of powerful working class. Challenge to status quo: women wanted the vote. What would a modern war look like: change in technology. Seen as being the most powerful nation in europe in 1914. In control of the largest colonial empire: by 1900, of the world"s population was ruled by the british. Great britain doesn"t want anything o change because they"re on top. Electoral system = proportional representation (minority coalition government) Germans fought the french and took alsace and loraine (1871) Far less politically involved than other states in europe. Ruled by absolute monarch (tsar nicholas ii) Ruled by huge bureaucracy: corrupt, inefficient. Great european powers afraid of russia: because of size of russia and size of population. Unhappy population of bosnians/slovakians: they want to be independent. Austria hungary wants to keep the empire unified. Power exclusively in the hands of kaiser wilhelm ii.
