HIST 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fashoda Incident, German Question, Total War
24 Dec 2015
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Lecture europe and the first world war. Napoleonic wars, largest wars europe had seen thus far, were still pretty small and there was no home-front the first world war, however, changes that. **this war leads to new challenges and new ways of expression among the population as the old order is decisively broken everyone wants to have a say in government. War creates so much horror that new genres of art and music are created to express the suspicious and anticipating war. Last straw: 1914, assassination of franz ferdinand by serbian nationalist working in black. This one event would not ordinarily cause a war, but it"s the invocation of the alliance obligations which gets the european powers involved austria declares war on serbia after trauma. Lurching from crisis to crisis, 1878 1914: The empires start leading to little crises in africa especially. Congress system resurrected beginning in 1870s diplomats and heads of state meet together to discuss solutions.
