HIS - History HIS 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Count Leopold Berchtold, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Socialized Medicine
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World war i- the birth of the modern era. Their entire foreign policy is trying to convince the rest of europe they should exist. Geurrilla/terrorist war had been going on since 1903 over it. June 28, 1914- archduke franz ferdinand and his wife are in sarajevo, bosnia to meet soldiers/visit hospitals. They made a wrong turn, had to flip around. Gavrilo princips, his assassin from the union of death, gets a second chance after he didn t have the nerve to pull the trigger last time. He kills them both. (terrorism as a russian/italian invention 1870 s) the ah is pissed, but the good thing is the assassination gives them a good reason to invade serbia and solve their issue there. Bismarck s triple alliance from 1882 (germany, italy, austria) complicates things. Britain, france and russia shortly after formed their own alliance- entente (1907). Ah sends minister count berchtold and franz baron conrad to berlin to ask for support against.