HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Dreyfus Affair, Serbian Nationalism, Social Darwinism
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Terrible moment in history of europe why did it happen. Altered everything allowed for the rice of extrremem poliical groups facism, nacism. Before, the outbreak it was one of mostly peace (there had been some wars, crimea, 8 week war they were small ones that characterized internaional disputes. The state system developed at the congress of vienna that redrew some boundaries, just provided detailed elaboraions of a state system from 1850 that worked well nothing like the 30 years war, of the. But the war that broke out in 1914 was carnage worst killed 2nd only to the black death staggering loss of life. All of europe didn"t want, but didn"t" know how to stop. Immediate cause the killing of the heir to the austrian hung throne franz ferdinand by a serbian naionalist organizaion. Belief this was a concentrated atack on the austro hungarian empire the.
