hwh unit 7 chapter 10.4. lagging behind resisted industrialization industrial, absolutist,...
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HWH UNIT 7
CHAPTER 10.4
Nationalism Threatens Old Empires
Austria after 1848Lagging behind
Resisted industrializationindustrial, absolutist, conservativeEthnic minorities
WeakeningDefeated by France and Sardinia
(1859)Defeated by Prussia (1866)
Emperor Francis Joseph (a.k.a. Franz Josef) (r. 1848-1916)
Tomb of Franz Josef, his wife (who was assassinated in 1898) and his son (who committed suicide in 1889)Habsburg Crypt, Vienna
Hungarian (Magyar) Nationalism2nd largest ethnic
group in the empireAustrian/German
was largestWanted autonomy
within the empire
The Ausgleich (1867)“Dual Monarchy”
Austria-Hungary1 King, 2 Kingdoms
Same foreign policyAutonomous domestic policy
Franz Josef being crowned King of Hungary, 1867
“Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will provoke the next war.”-Otto von Bismarck
Serbian IndependenceGreek IndependenceConflict
AustriaWants to control Slavs
Ottoman EmpireThe “Sick Man of Europe”
RussiaWants to protect Slavs
Problems in the Balkans