HIST 3351H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Militarism, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria
5 Apr 2016
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Capital: st. petersburg/ petrograd (1914 populaion 2. 2 million) German reich (1871-1918)united kingdom of great britain and ireland (1801-1922)french third republic (1870-1940)russian empire (1721-1917)austro-hungarian empire (1867-1918)kaiser wilhelm ii (german emperor) Reign: june 15, 1888 to november 9, 1918. Embodied 3 essenial characterisics: militarism, ambiion, insecurity. Ater the revoluions in 1848, europe saw an upsurge in naionalism across the coninent. Rapid economic growth in germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries put pressure on other european states. In the last two decades of the 19th century there was a rapid increase in imperialisic acivity, paricularly in africa and south east asia. During the late 19th century and early 20th centuries the development of rival alliances among the great powers emerged. The balkans was one of the greatest sources of instability in european poliicis in the years before the outbreak of the great war. The event that sparked the great war was the assassinaion of archduke franz.
