Having enjoyed political freedom and patriotism‚ the Serbs rebelled again. The Second Serbian Uprising drove the Ottomans out of Serbian territories. Serbia expanded their lands into the territory of Ottoman Empire. Losing the wars‚ Ottomans granted Serbian Principality that eventually led to the formal independence of Serbia in 1878. In both Serbia and Greece‚ their revolutions were sparked by the spread of nationalism and had caused significant wear and damage to the Ottoman Empire’s military through
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wanted to break free of the Austria-Hungary Empire and have an independent Yugoslavia. This caused the spark of the war because Austria-Hungary found out that Serbia helped to provide some equipment and weapons. So they decided to teach Serbia a lesson by going to war with them and were planning on crushing them but they couldn ’t because Serbia was allied with Russia but they did anyway pulling there ally‚ Germany‚ in and causing the whole conflict to kick off. The death of one royal family member
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be taken into account. Imperialism‚ militarism‚ the arms race and the balance of power in Europe were all important factors that lead to WW1. The conflict commenced when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo‚ the capital of Serbia. This act‚ however‚ was merely the spark which lit the flame of war. Though there are many cause of the war arguably the most significant of these was the widespread feeling of nationalism in Europe at
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What caused the outbreak of the war? In late June 1914‚ Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia. A rapid increase of threats followed the incident led to the world’s first global conflict‚ The First World War. The Great War between the Allied Powers of Great Britain‚ France‚ Russia and the USA and the Central Powers of Germany‚ Austria Hungary‚ Italy and Turkey had began in mid-August 1914. The introduction of the modern technology and weaponry such
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By the outbreak of World War 1 Britain controlled an empire 140 times larger than itself; France controlled an empire 20 times its own size; and Belgium about 80 times its own size. The late 1800s through the early 1900s saw the rapid colonization of Africa by Europeans; this period has been called "the Scramble for Africa". European countries competed for colonies wanting to control them for their vast natural resources and as a market for their goods. Britain had a far stretching empire in the
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"CROATS AND SERBS: TWO OLD AND DIFFERENT NATIONS" Dr. O. Dominik Mandic PREFACE The constitution of present-day Yugoslavia generally recognizes that Yugoslavia is a multinational state in which there are several nations: Serbs‚ Croats‚ Slovenes‚ Montenegrins‚ Macedonians‚ as well as national minorities: Albanians‚ Rumanians‚ Hungarians‚ Germans and Italians. A separate republic was created in 1945 for every nation in Yugoslavia and allowed by the constitutional law to secede from the common
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One of the most useless wars that America had the displeasure of being apart of was World War 1. It was started by the Austrians on July 28th‚ 1914 and nearly lasted four years finally ending on November 11th‚ 1918. The war consisted of two teams‚ the Allies who were the United Kingdom‚ France‚ and the Russian Empire and were later joined by Italy‚ Japan‚ and of course the U.S. of A but the Central Powers were Austria-Hungary and… Germany but as time went on the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined
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International Marketing Marketing strategy to attract bulgarian and international students in joint- master degree programs “European Business and Finance” and “International marketing” in University of National and World economy Contents: 1. 2. 3. 4. Defining our goals a. Defining the problem – the low numbers of foreign students in the joint programme and in the university as a whole. b. Defining the products with which
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1. Austria and Hungary were previously independent entities. Through the Compromise of 1867‚ the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary united‚ but previous boundaries were unaffected. Austria’s land before the compromise already wrapped around Hungary’s‚ so there was no change (Siegel). 2. Austria-Hungary decided to invest into a strong navy‚ as predicted. While a significant portion of people thought it was a waste of money‚ the government funded it for defense. These dreadnoughts and submarines
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QUESTION: To what extent was Europe a powder Keg ready to explode in 1914? Europe was to a great extent a ‘powder keg’ ready to explode prior to 1914. Despite conflicting views on the causes of World War 1‚ the outbreak of this War was not inevitable‚ nor was it the result of one key event. However‚ it was more a product of rising tensions‚ rivalry and fear within Europe‚ which dated back primarily to the 18th and 19th centuries. Emerging new ideologies and the development of new technologies facilitated
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