HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Nicholas Ii Of Russia, Serbian Nationalism, Autocracy
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most terrible cataclysmic event since the black death. led to a period of instability even though it was supposed to be a war to end all wars. period from the congress vienna to the years before wwi were relatively peaceful. everyone seemed to walk blindly into the event, they knew it was going to happen but no one did anything to stop it. immediate cause was the assassination of franz ferdinand by a serbian nationalist gavrilo princip. theories as to why the archduke was a target of assassination: independent, liberal to the slavic minorities (thought to have wanted to turn the dual. had to be taken out or else the ambitions of the serbs could not happen. austrians gave an ultimatum to serbia, & they accepted 10 of the 11, & refused the one in which the austrians could investigate the assassination austrians refused to accept this.
