HIS 1110 : After Morroco.docx
Document Summary
French were the ones to push morocco issue not germany. Germany allied to turkey and have railroad through balkans into baghdad. Germany thought it should have more influence in the balkans then the russians. British and france saw germany driving to the east. Germany might try to move east all the way to india. Britain worried about german competition for influence in ottomans. Now britain and russia see a common interest in stopping germany moving east. Who will have influence, russia or germany with austrian allies. The serbs in particular (race is slavic) have more in common in with russians. Most of balkans are also slavs and orthodox christians. They looked to russia since it was the most powerful orthodox country. However further north provinces like slovenia and croatia were also slavic but they did not become independent and they are catholic and under austrian empire. 1878 war between russia and turkey, it was decided that province of bosnia-herzegovina (were.
