HIS-1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Port, Total War
27 Oct 2016
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Bitter fruits of globalization: origins of the great war. Germany wants an alliance with russia, but russia is too deeply attached to britain. Drives germany to ally with austria-hungary to protect itself from france and britain. France is frightened by the alliance between germany, austria-hungary, and italy. Russia sees the threat of its long border along germany and austria-hungary, and joined the alliance with britain and france (the triple entente) War almost breaks out in persian between britain and russia. Britain and france almost go to war over burma. Germany enters an arms race with britain: massive naval building to control highways of national commerce (oceanic trading) Dreadnaughts heavy armed and armored battleships. Russia lacks infrastructure to mobilize troops fast: trying to knock out one opponent fast so they do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to fight a t(cid:449)o-front war. June 28, 1914 archduke franz ferdinand was assassinated in bosnia by a serbian assassin, gaurilo princip.
