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When the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act of was passed, popular sovereignty was applied within the two new After failing to seize the fortified settlement, they began a siege of it, which lasted until their retreat on June 18, Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Great Britain. As a result, Great Bulgaria was broken up and Serbian independence was guaranteed.
The annexation in led some in Vienna to contemplate combining Bosnia and Herzegovina originally Bosnien und Herzegowina with Croatia to form a third, slavic component of the Empire. The deaths of Franz Joseph's brother, Maximilian , and only son, Rudolf , made the Emperor's nephew, Franz Ferdinand , heir to the throne.
The archduke was said to have been an advocate for this trialism, by which he wanted to limit the power of the Magyar aristocracy. As a result of these rumors Franz Ferdinand was not loved either in Hungary or in Serbia. There were a few members of the Black Hand in Sarajevo that day. Before Franz was shot, somebody had already tried to kill him and his wife. A member of the Black Hand threw a grenade at the car, but missed. It injured some people nearby and Franz made sure they were given medical attention before the convoy could carry on.
Gavrilo Princip was the man who shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The convoy took a wrong turn into a street where Gavrilo Princip was. He took out a pistol from his pocket and shot Franz and his wife. The Empire's military spending had not even doubled since the Congress of Berlin , while German spending had risen fivefold, and British, Russian and French threefold.
The Empire had previously lost ethnically Italian areas to Piedmont owing to nationalist movements sweeping through Italy, and many Austro-Hungarians perceived the threat of losing the southern territories inhabited by Slavs to Serbia as imminent.
Serbia had recently gained a significant amount of territory in the Second Balkan War of , causing much distress in government circles in Vienna and Budapest. But the leaders of Austria-Hungary, especially Count Leopold von Berchtold, backed by its ally Germany , decided to confront Serbia militarily before it could incite a revolt; using the assassination as an excuse, they presented a list of ten demands called the July Ultimatum , expecting Serbia would never accept.
When Serbia accepted nine of the ten demands but only partially accepted the remaining one, Austria-Hungary declared war. Franz Joseph I in the end had followed the urgent suggestions of his top advisors. Over the course of July and August , these events caused the start of World War I , as Russia mobilized in support of Serbia, setting off a series of countermobilizations.
Italy initially remained neutral, although it had an alliance with Austria-Hungary. In , it switched to the side of the Entente powers , hoping to gain territory from its former ally.
Under Conrad's command, Austro-Hungarian troops were involved in the fighting in the Great War until emperor Karl I took the supreme command himself in late and dismissed Conrad in At the start of the war, the army was divided in two; the smaller part attacked Serbia while the larger part fought against the formidable Russian army. The invasion of Serbia was a disaster. By the end of the year, the Austro-Hungarian Army had taken no territory and had lost , men out of a total force of , men.
On the Eastern front , things started out equally poorly. The bloody but indecisive fighting on the Italian Front would last for the next three and a half years. It was only on this front that the Austrians proved effective in war, managing to hold back the numerically superior Italian armies in the Alps and at the Isonzo river. In , the Russians focused their attacks on the Austro-Hungarian army in the Brusilov Offensive , recognizing the numerical inferiority of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
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