HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: July Crisis
30 Dec 2015
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Importance: without wwi there would not have been wwii. The arms race (late 19th early 20th century: mostly a naval battle, britain needs to keep control of ocean to stay alive, britain saw. Germany ship construction as threat and entered in competition with germany: arms race increases tensions (ex. cold war) racing to build up weapons and stock with no current use. Dangerous: the most dangerous weapons they have, the more tempted they are to use them. Russia (series of treaties leading up to the entente). large scale. Serbia: austria-hungary (multi ethic, multi-language empire) inner, russia: wants to expand and getting warm water ports. Slavism, people in balkans are natural allies to the russian empire: austria-hungary: many slavs also live in austro-hungarian. Empire (at the time a multi-ethnic empire made up of many different languages and cultures) conflict. Slavs don"t want to be part of empire. Separatist movements: want to break up empire from within overwhelmed.
