The first half of the last Harry Potter movie came officially came out last night- im gonna go see it tonight though, and again on sunday afternoon. =)
more blog discussions over WW1 today.
recap-
militarism = a nation building up its military and relying on it to settle disputes.
if theres an arms race going on, the world is dangerous. eventually those arms will be used.
imperialism = powerful countries taking over smaller countries.
causes lots of land disputes.
nationalism = 1) desire of common people for independence 2) desire of independent countries to have more prestige and power.
hitler was an example of a really extreme nationalist. he wanted germany to expand, wanted only pure germans to live in germany, wanted germans to be the the superior people in the world. so, nationalism in the extreme can be problematic. low forms, aka pride, are not bad at all. its like patriotism then.
and this was where we left off yesterday, so....the balkan penninsula.
austria hungary and several ethnic groups, the major ones being the austrians and the hungarians, hence the name of the country. living there, the minority groups were not nationalistic towards their country, but towards their own individual ethnic groups. so, the country of austria hungary really hated nationalism, because it was cause many of their citizens to take the side of their native countries, or leave and go there, so the country would be all divided up. therefore, it was crumbling from the inside out - it fell not because other countries came and took it over, but because its people all wanted their own country for their own ethnic groups.
System of Alliances;
a system of alliances is when countries make alliances with other countries- alliance is when your "allies" agree to come help you out, usually during times of war.
side conversation.....alliances->mexico->drug wars. dont go to texas borders at night. ever.
there were lots of alliances prior to ww1. GB and france were buddies, and we were on there side when we joined, because we were trading partners with GB. Germany wanted to be buddies with Russia, GB, italy, and austria. Two systems in this war: the Central Powers (germany, austria hungary, bulgaria, ottoman empire(today's turkey)) Allied Powers (GB, france, italy, russia(until 1917, when they became communist- bolshevik revolution -soviet union- also when we joined the war) serbia, portugal, greece, romania, belgium (these four were kinda minor in the war, not the big guys). then there was the nuetral people, who was pretty much everyone else and switzerland. so, looking at the systems, the allied powers are more likely to win, since they have more countries. they also had us, when we joined.
so, alliances helped cause the war becuase when you make an alliance, you're stating your distrust for other countries. so when these two systems emerged, it caused more tension between the two.
Economic Competition-
countries competed with each other for resources, land, power, money, colonies, etc. made the war very susceptible to a huge war breaking out.
Spark that set of the war:
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand......
backtracking. austria hungary- lets throw everyone and their brother into one country. had two kings, an autrian one and a hungarian one. austrians and hungarians were the largest groups, but together they made up less than 50% of the country. government hated serbia. called them the serbian menace. because, serbia wanted to make all serbians part of serbia. The Black Hand was a group started for ethnic purging in serbia, and to get the serbs into serbia by pretty much any means,
Archduke Franz Ferdinad- his brother was the oldest prince, so when he died, franz became the crown prince. met his wife in 1885- they didnt tell the public until a year after they had a relationship. because, she was of common blood, and back then royalty still had to marry other royalty. so, she was forced to be in the background of eveything in exchange for being allowed to get married.
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