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nationalists set out to assassinate the Archduke, they had no idea the magnitude of the impact their actions would cause. Later that day, one of the men shot Ferdinand dead and sparked a war between the Serbia (the country the assassins represented) and Austria-Hungary. Shortly after the declaration of war on Serbia, Russia prepared for war. When Germany, started invading European countries, Britain was forced to declare war on them. The Serbians, backed by France, Britain, Russia, Italy,…

debatable; however most historians agree that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife was the most immediate cause. This assassination led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. When Russia began to mobilize due to its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. Finally, Great Britain entered the war against Germany a couple days later and then was against Austria-Hungary. The drivers of these players in the war are based on have basis…

The balkanization that caused Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to break up is caused by Nationalism and the different ethnicities that existed within Austria-Hungary and then Yugoslavia later. Austria-Hungary's primary culture was Austrian, part of the German Cultural branch, yet most of the empire was Slavic Balkan. The breakup of Austria-Hungary created Yugoslavia, and while the ethnicities were part of the same cultural group, the different ethnicities trying to gain power would lead to its…

with Prussia in their eminent attack on Austria. Thus the tables were set, Bismarck now needed to precipitate his war. As Austro-Prussian tensions rose continuously in Schleswig and Holstein, Bismarck ordered his troops that were stationed near Austrian forces to be as obnoxious as possible (Turner, 740). Austria would do the predicted, they went to war with the support of Saxony, Hesse-Kassel, and Hanover. As sixth weeks passed, Prussia dealt with Austria one of the most humiliating and…

Gitta Sereny’s book, Into that Darkness, explores the life of a man known as Franz Stangl. Stangl was a head Nazi official who ran two death camps, Sobibor and Treblinka, in Austria throughout the Holocaust. After the war was over, Stangl was able to evade the law for nearly 20 years. He went into hiding in Syria until his family, wife and daughters, were able to move to him. They eventually fled Europe and the middle east by taking a transport ship to South America. Once in Brazil, Stangl…

A common character attribute found Shakespeare’s male protagonists is that of being hotheaded. He uses this characteristic to insert aspects of different genres into the plays. In The Life and Death of King John, the Bastard’s hotheadedness adds a comedic element to an otherwise heavy play. While in Cymbeline, a more comedic play, Posthumus’s hotheadedness creates tragedy. He successfully uses the same characteristic to create two different results. Shakespeare uses hotheadedness in different…

Most of the wars to unified Italy’s nation were against Austria-Hungary and with some French interventions along the way. Guiseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general, help the troops get most of their nation. Most of the wars were fought were for power over land. There was still land that was noted as Italian but was not yet part of the nation. Some of the land that Italy view as there were some of southern Alps and Trieste which still belong to Austria-Hungary. Italy was the sixth largest European…

Over time and throughout history, nationalism has played a significant role that caused international conflicts. Nationalism is a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country, often with the belief that their country is better and more important than other countries. The development that caused international conflicts is nationalists ideas because of this belief. Nationalism was evidence through situations in historical events in history such as World War 1, World War 2,…

In some ways, Germany was not the primary cause of World War 1. Germany was not directly related to the start of the war but rather dragged into it by its alliances. Before the start of the war, Germany had instigated the Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary and Italy. The Triple Alliance was extremely powerful because it stated that the countries part of the alliance were obligated to assist each other in a time of war. If one country were to declare war on another country or another country…

end all Wars”, however soon proved to be the cause to so much more tragedies in the future. Ending on November 18th, 1918, it caused the death of 17 million people, and so many other tragedies. Back in 1914, on the day of June 28, the archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by a member of a Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand. A man named Gavrilo Princip, a member of this group shot and killed Ferdinand, and essentially began a war. But the assassination of Ferdinand…