Balkans

Depth Study Three: WW1 Essay World War One was a period of struggle for Europe. There were several factors that lead to tensions in Europe which ultimately caused World War 1. The war occurred in 1914 until 1918 and it had many famous and bloody battles, such as The Battle of the Somme. The war killed up to 17 million people and caused 49 million casualties of not just soldiers, but civilians as well. The war was fought between members of the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy)…

Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece and Albania. Even though Italy was in the Triple Alliance it was very fickle and changed sides, it fought for whoever was winning. The weakening of the Ottoman Empire was seen as a good time to take over the Balkans trade route by the Russians to increase their strength and control. Austria-Hungary took over Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908, making the Serbian people fuming with national pride for their independence. The conspirators organisation, Blank Hand…

for two reasons. First, Russia has a lot of people. They can support a lot of people for the war if that needs to happen. Secondly, Russia wants a warm water port going out of their country through the balkan territories. France and Great Britain now agree to align with Russia and get them that Balkan territory so they can now trade goods easier. This is why alliances are so powerful. One talk between countries and they now are together for whatever comes at them. This is also why it turned into…

It is heavily debated that the German Schlieffen Plan in 1914 was a key factor in the outbreak of European war. The plan was unsuccessful in attacking France due to Belgian intervention. As a result, tensions increased and Britain ultimately declared war. Taylor in Source 1 argues how the plan indeed contributed to the outbreak of war, thus making it inevitable. However, Martel in Source 2 refutes from Taylor’s perspective, arguing that the plan was only carried out through a defensive motive by…

Unlike the Western tradition point of view towards arts and museums, museums developed in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey did not only play the role of place for displaying and reserving visual arts, but more associated with narratives of territoriality, ethnicity and nationhood. Many arts works in those museums were not form of art, but more like an ideology that the Ottoman Empire tried to deliver to its citizens and aliens. In the Imperial Palace, several treasury collections…

In proportion to population, the genocide or ethnocide (ethnic cleansing) in the Balkans in 1941, especially in what became Yugoslavia, surpassed even the atrocities in Nazi Germany. The clarity and depth of Ustasha research for 1941-45 lacks the breath and detail provided for Nazi atrocities of a similar nature in the same time period. The terrorists called Ustasha in Yugoslavia were brutal killers whose methods were extremely primitive and sadistic and considered by some scholars as worse…

of civilian fatalities has dropped massively. In World War II the percentage of civilians dying was 40 to 67 percent. In the Korean War the percentage of civilians dying was 70 percent. In the Vietnam War the percentage was 31 percent, and in the Balkan Wars was 45% (ProCon). Multitudinous innocent people are not dying as they used to. Drones are more safe, but I also understand why people are scared. I would be scared myself traumatized if drones were patrolling around for 24 hours straight, I…

it would have been economically harmful and contrary to his own religious beliefs. In order to restore Salonica economically and structurally, the Ottomans welcomed the inflow of foreigners such as the Jews in 1478 from the Mediterranean into the Balkan land. Sultan Murad’s openness proved rewarding as the political and cultural influence of the Jews along with their revolutionary business acumen helped revitalize the economy in…

Justinian contributions to the Byzantine empire were magnificent he is also known for a great failure. This failure was trying to reconquer the western Mediterranean provinces when a peace treaty with the Persian empire soon failed to live up to its name. Justinian build a chain of well-equipped fortresses throughout Syria and let his forces free on the central and western Mediterranean. The re-conquest started out well with the restoration of North Africa to the Byzantine Empire. From there…

Historian Sidney Fay believes that Serbian nationalism was the main reason of why World War One even happened . During the 19th Century there were a number of conflicting forces that had emerged in the Balkans, the most nationalistic and aggressive was seen in the State of Serbia. Serbia saw itself as the natural leader of Slavic people, looking to create a union for the Slavonic people create a new nation, however Austria-Hungary opposed the idea of the…