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HIST 1112 Chapter 23 Lecture The Beginning of the Twentieth Century Crisis War and Revolution
The Road to World War I
On June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo.
Although this event precipitated the confrontation between Austria and Serbia that led to World War I, underlying forces had been propelling Europeans toward armed conflict for a long time.
Nationalism and Internal Dissent
Two Great Alliances
The system of nation-states that had emerged in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century had led to intense competition.
Rivalries over colonies and trade intensified during an era of frenzied imperialist expansion, while the division of Europe’s great powers into two loose alliances (Germany, Austria, and Italy on one side and France, Great Britain, and Russia on the other) only added to the tensions.
The series of crises that tested these alliances in the 1900s and early 1910s had left European states embittered, eager for revenge, and willing to go to war to preserve the power of their national states.
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By Matt WittThe Road to World War I
On June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo.
Although this event precipitated the confrontation between Austria and Serbia that led to World War I, underlying forces had been propelling Europeans toward armed conflict for a long time.
Nationalism and Internal Dissent
Two Great Alliances
The system of nation-states that had emerged in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century had led to intense competition.
Rivalries over colonies and trade intensified during an era of frenzied imperialist expansion, while the division of Europe’s great powers into two loose alliances (Germany, Austria, and Italy on one side and France, Great Britain, and Russia on the other) only added to the tensions.
The series of crises that tested these alliances in the 1900s and early 1910s had left European states embittered, eager for revenge, and willing to go to war to preserve the power of their national states.