HIST104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Austria-Hungary, Serbian Nationalism
11 Apr 2018
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Sarajevo is currently the capital of bosnia (in southeast europe) Had been part of the ottoman empire. Bosnia was taken over buy austria hungary. Was the next in line to become the emperor of austria hungary. He was assassinated as he rode through sarajevo in a car. This assassination triggered a chain of events that led to the outbreak of world war: long term things that led to the war: Aimed to unite the citizens of countries. Caused political instability in empires that contained lots of nationalities. In austria hungary there were lots of minorities, same with ottoman empire - very diverse. Germany - unified into a single country in 1871. after unification, it developed its military power. Threatened brittan"s supremacy in europe - germans spent heavily on their navy. Germans developed heavily armed battle ships called dreadnoughts. Prompted the british to spend more on their ships.
