PSY100Y5 Lecture : 28 - The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900 - 1929.doc

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Tom Wang

Document Summary

Origins of the crisis in europe and the middle east. The ottoman empire and the balkans: by the late nineteenth century the once-powerful ottoman empire was in decline and losing the outlying provinces closest to europe. The european powers meddled in the affairs of the ottoman empire, sometimes in cooperation, at other times as rivals. In reaction, the young turks conspired to force a constitution on the sultan, advocated centralized rule and turkification of minorities, and carried out modernizing reforms. The turks turned to germany for assistance and hired a german general to modernize. The alliance system in combination with the rigidly scheduled mobilization plans meant that war was automatic. The great war and the russian revolutions, 1914 1918. Stalemate, 1914 1917: the nations of europe entered the war in high spirits, confident of victory. For four years the war was inconclusive on both land and at sea.