HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, German Empire, House Of Romanov
Document Summary
How war and empire were involved in world war 1. Ended the status of the austro-hungarian and ottoman empires, which were dismantled by the big powers. The war also destroyed the german and russian empires. In germany, a new republican political system emerged by 1919 as a part of a national revolution. Within a generation after ww1 the republican experiment failed in favor of a fascist regime ruled by adolf hitler. The war and the peace treaty for germany were significant factors in the coming to power of hitler in russian a series of revolutions occurred after 1917 that led to the establishment of. Ww1 facilitated the polarization of european politics, between a far right regime in. Germany and a communist government in the soviet union. Goal: to understand the ways in which the first world war let to the revolutions in. Germany and russia in 1917-1918 that destroyed the german and russian empires.
