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1 day ago · In conclusion, Austria-Hungary‘s fateful decision to issue an ultimatum to Serbia in July 1914 was the spark that ignited the powder keg of Europe and plunged the continent into World War I. The Dual Monarchy‘s leaders, blinded by their own ambitions and fears, gambled everything on a war with Serbia and lost.
5 days ago · Recorded 1900. Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I ( German: Franz Joseph Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until ...
5 days ago · Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (London, 1997). A second edition was published with Bloomsbury in 2014.Back to (2) Jay Winter and Antoine Prost, The Great War in History. Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge, 2005), p. 199.Back to (3) Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers.
4 days ago · The Undermining of Austria-Hungary is a meticulously tidy, balanced and up-to-date piece of research, which in fact constitutes the best proof of why doing a PhD is the ultimate training for an historian. Like all former PhDs, it is enormously detailed; unlike many, the detail at no point obscures the overall story that is being told here, or ...
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2 days ago · July 12, 2018 - The map of Europe underwent drastic revision after World War I. The defeated Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey – suffered huge territorial losses, and new independent countries were born, from Finland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south. infographic
5 days ago · Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. Book: Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. Marvin Benjamin Fried. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN: 9781137359025; 320pp.; Price: £60.00. Reviewer: Professor Mesut Uyar. University of New South Wales, Canberra.
2 days ago · Hungary, landlocked country of central Europe. The capital is Budapest. At the end of World War I, defeated Hungary lost 71 percent of its territory as a result of the Treaty of Trianon (1920). Since then, grappling with the loss of more than two-thirds of their territory and people, Hungarians have looked to a past that was greater than the ...
