Always enjoy digging deeper into these monarchies. Admittedly the history I remember from school glazed over Franz Ferdinand and the start of WWI, nice to get a bit more into the details.

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Excellent video. Thank you!

Great video man! Austia-hungary is an interesting topic!

Thanks so much for this man! I recently found out that my ancestor came from Dalmatia in 1911 and I tell you, tracing his roots has been a nightmare among all this chaos lol.

I always enjoy a new take on WWI, great video!

I'm a bit shocked that after Franz Ferdinand was killed that Franz Joseph didn't say out of some degree of frustration: "We're gonna need another heir to the throne."

Nice summary of this part of history. Thanks

how do you only have so few subscribers??? this is good content!

happy Monday! hope u had a great weekend and fathers day. wanted to say hi and be safe and awesome history lesson

Thank you for sharing this lesson. 👑

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I can only imagine at least one of Franz Joseph's reactions to the death of Franz Ferdinand: "We're gonna need another heir to the throne."

Austria didn't lose that much of its territory because Bohemia and Galicia were never part of Austria proper. They were those "Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council", which was the official name of the "Austrian" part of the monarchy. Austria lost Slovenia (Carniola) and South Tyrol and received Burgenland from Hungary. That's not so bad compared to Hungarian losses.

Great work on my home country!

Serbia wanted to take the one point of the ultimatum they didn't agree with to the international tribunal at the Hague for arbitration,but Austria-Hungary rejected it arguing that rejection of any one part of the ultimatum was a rejection of the whole thing

Another great informative video. Bravo👏👏👏

0:45 Look at the big brain on Ferdinand! -Samuel L Jackson

Hey LBH! I just found your channel and have watched a few of your videos and oh man, your channel is massively underappreciated. Seriously tho these videos don't get any were near the views they should but hey, keep posting videos like these and I'm sure your channel will snowball in no time. On the video itself, I loved the way you approached the topic and mentioned specifics such as the corruption present in the army and the problem of nationalism/separatism among other things leading to the empires downfall. Anyhow man keep up the amazing work and I wish you all the best of luck! Ps: if I may make a suggestion for a video that people may find interesting, would be the birth and death of the Japanese empire. Now while the topic itself has been covered on youtube somewhat, one angle that hasn't been covered that you may like to cover is life inside the Japanese puppet states. For example how in manchuria, the Japanese forced it's subjects to learn Japanese for a multitude of reasons(assimilation suppression of potential rebellion, more informants and so on).

Complicated history but well explained. Loved the music.

hello there, would you like to do videos discussing countries' relationships throughout time??

As for the sole term of the Austro-Prussian ultimatum that Serbia rejected,well to say Serbia rejected it is kind of misleading. Serbia didn't reject it outright,they proposed submitting it to the international tribunal at the Hague,in other words,Serbia was suggesting third party arbitration of the disputed point of the ultimatum. Austria-Hungary interpreted Serbia wanting third party arbitration of the disputed point of the ultimatum as not only rejection of that part of the ultimatum,but rejection of the whole thing. But,as you pointed out, Austria-Hungary was itching for any reason to fight Serbia.

there is still the habsburgs alive, karl von habsburg and his children are living in austria

Fransisco franco tried offering the spanish crown to otto von Habsburg but he refused. probably because the spanish would not like a foreigner to be king.

3:53 why there are no Serbs there? Croats instead in the west Banat, east Syrmia, Baranya... and only Hungarians in south Backa... 1910 census has 1.8 mil Croats and 1.1 mil Serbs living in the Austria-Hungary

1. The reason why Italy didn't join WW1 with it's allies in the Triple Alliance was because as their treaty was a defensive pact and Austria-Hungary threw the 1st punch by declaring war on Serbia, it meant they could sit it out. 2. Why did Germany unconditionally help its Austro-Hungarian allies even though they threw the 1st punch by declaring war on Serbia? Because,by German calculations,if Austria-Hungary was left to its own devices against the Russians, they'd only last until 1917 at the most.

8:55 that short lived republic was a communist republic led by Bela Kun, but that regime quickly fell with a joint invasion by Romania and Czechoslovakia.

Glazed over how horrible the treaties were at the end.

Thanks i have a school presentation about the fall of austria-hungary empire this helpd

0:45 Holy Molly! The Habsburgs are famous for their chin, but this guy has a huge head!

3:50 YOU FORGOT SERBS

Didn't Serbia an by assists of russia and Great Britain accept 8/10 dema listed on the paper

And now a Habsburg member and direct relative is a successful racing car driver. Go figure

Seems the same is happening now with Ukraine (in the role of Serbia) and Russia in the role of the Austro-Hungarian empire

4:40 General Franz Conrad Hoetzendorf, chief of staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Once again a Prussian/German border is failed by their moden counterparts: 0:12 Prussia / Belgium. this is the modern border, not the old one.

Gavrilo Princip was more a Yugoslav nationalist

We were forced into the empire...

​ @Look Back History In July 1849, the Hungarian Revolutionary Parliament proclaimed and enacted the WORLD's FIRST laws on ethnic and minority rights. It gave minorities the freedom to use their mothertongue at local administration, at tribunals, in schools, in community life and even within the national guard of non-Magyar councils. However these laws were overturned after the united Russian and Austrian armies crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. After the Kingdom of Hungary reached the Compromise with the Habsburg Dynasty in 1867 (Ausgleich), one of the first acts of the restored Hungarian Parliament was to pass a Law on Nationalities (Minority rights law: the act number XLIV of 1868). The situation of minorities in Hungary was not even comparable to the contemporary pre WW1 Europe. Other highly multiethnic /multinational countries were: France Russia and UK. See the multi-national UK: The situation of Scottish Irish and Welsh people in "Britain" during the English hegemony is well known. They utmost forgot their original language,only English language cultural educational institutions existed. The only language was English in judiciary procedures and in offices and public administrations. In Wales Welsh children were beaten by their teachers if they spoke Welsh among each others. This was the infamous “Welsh Not” policy... See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not The contemporary Irish question and tensions are well documented. The situation of Ireland was even a more brutal and bloody story. It was not a real "United" Kingdom, it was rather a greater England. English legal system did not know the minority rights until the post ww2 period. See the multiethnic France: In the era of the Great French revolution, only 25% of the population of Kingdom of France could speak the French language as mothertongue. But even in 1870, France was still similar-degree multi-ethnic state as Hungary, only 50% of the population of France spoke the French language as mothertongue. The other half of the population spoke Occitan, Breton, Provençal, Catalan, Corsican, Alsatian, West Flemish, Lorraine Franconian, Gallo, Picard or Ch’timi and Arpitan etc... Many minority languages were closer to Spanish languages or Italian language than French) French governments banned minority language schools, minority language newspapers minority theaters. They banned the usage of minority languages in offices , public administration, and judiciary procedures. The ratio of french mothertongue increased from 50% to 91% during the 1870-1910 period!!! The situation in German Empire was well known (Polish territories and Sorbs) Just look some Eastern countries in the oriental so-called Eurasian (aka. Orthodox) civilization : The legal system of pre-WW1 Kingdom of Serbia did not know minority rights. Also, the legal system of pre-WW1 Kingdom of Romania did not know minority rights, morover, Kingdom of Romania applied strong anti-Semitic discriminative laws against Jewish people, which was similar to Tzarist Russia. Read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#Treaty_of_Berlin_and_aftermath Slavery disappeared during the high medieval period on Western Christian European soil, however, it existed in Romanian territories until the mid 19th century! The Gypsy slavery and slave markets were abolished only in 1852!!! (Gypsies of Romania had similar status like blacks in USA before the civil war) See: books.google.com/books?id=df2mIOnbrDoC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=gypsy+%22slave+markets%22+romania&source=bl&ots=5MY5_TxutD&sig=ACfU3U1E8Dvv2rkKhRSfOrnAbfwQgnlv3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwith4_qqbntAhWSuIsKHZ37CpwQ6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=gypsy%20%22slave%20markets%22%20romania&f=false and see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Romania Just examine the high contrast between the Kingdom of Hungary and contemporary pre WW1-era Europe: The so-called "Magyarization" fantasy was not so harsh as the contemporary western European situation, because the minorities were defended by minority rights and laws. Contemporary Western European legal systems did not know the minority rights, therefore their political leaders loudly and proudly covered up their minorities by the force of law. 1.Were there state-sponsored minority schools in Western European countries? NO. 2. How many official languages existed in Western-European states? Only 1 official language! 3. Could minorities use their languages in the offices of public administration in self-governments , in tribunals in Western Europe? No, they couldn't. 4. Did the minorities have own fractions and political parties in the western European parliaments ? No, no they hadn't. 5. What about newspapers of ethnic minorities in Western Europe? They did not exist in the West.... We can continue these things to infinity.

Looking both at this video and comments, I can't get rid of the feeling that West doesn't know so vastly much, at least about the situation at the Balkans and Bosnia, where WWI started and where those things, elements, situations, constalations still exist. So, I'll give you hereby a short interpretation of serbian perspective which one can always reject if one wants, but can also be the eyes-oppening missing one. A small but honorable and heroic Kingdom of Serbia was a neighbouring- and rivaling kingdom to big austro-hungarian empire, inter alia- and even mainly because of its own (parallel with the austro-hungarian-) claims against Bosnia, but with far more justified motives. Bosnia has almost exclusively been populated by (bosnian-) serbian Christians, before turkish (Ottoman) occupation took place and Serbs were majority even 500 years after ottoman rule of Bosnia, so even at the dawn of WWI. During Ottoman occupation many of Bosnians converted to Islam in order to preserve their citizen rights, since "non faithful" (as Muslims called non Muslims i.e. Christians) during Ottoman rule were depraved of these, for instance - non Muslim was not allowed to ride a horse, to have their own shop, had to pay tax (Muslims were free from that) and to give one third of annual crops to his muslim feudal master, even to give his own bride the first night after wedding (Droit du seigneur)(interestingly enough, when one looks about last mentioned in Wikipedia (todays "Bible" i.e. Book of Truth), one will find about practice of this law in Osman Kingdom only in croatian version (language), all other ignore it!, while in croatian there's even detailed description about when, how (that the bride or doughter of the christian serf would be taken to aga's or beg's home and then there dressed in special muslim clothing (dimije), that the child born out of such intercourse would usually be killed by her closest, that therefore many young couples used to run away of the first night of wedding, etc) So, there's really informatics blockade, which people are not aware about, due to ignorance of such facts (since it's not from domestic experience), or consciousnessly. Anyway, centuries later, when Ottoman Empire started to weaken and finally lost it's grip over Bosnia and sold it to Austria-Hungary for dimes, Austrians (because of perfidious political reasons) continued with the anti Serb- and pro Muslim policy, preserving in Bosnia (among other things) the old feudal relations between non muslims (mostly serbian- and even croatian christian peasants) and the converted muslims (since almost all of ethnic Turks run back to Turkey after Bosnia became austrian), thus supporting the last pocket of feudalism in the West and causing revulsion especially in Paris and among all progressive and humanistic circles of that time Europe. Even Gavrilo (which is an ortodox variant of catholic/protestant Gabriel) Princip, when asked to explain his motives, mentioned that he was an offspring of serbian christian peasants, serfs, who lived very hard due to such laws (-established by Turks and preserved by Austrians). Did you know that Austria forbidden all/any serbian culture organisation in Bosnia already 1913.? And did you know that austrian General Stuff, with general Hötzendorf (anglicized as Hoetzendorf) on top, had already from 1908 repeatedly (5 times) called for preemptive war against Serbia? Austrian anexation of Bosnia to "mother Austria" (as official austrian media and propaganda called it) was fake already by such a name, since the population in Bosnia was south slavic and mainly serbian (together with bosnian Croats and converted bosnian Muslims, the latter by far being Serbs before ottoman ocupation and conversion to Islam) i.e. totally different from Austrians by language, culture, identity, customs, mentality. They (bosnian Serbs) have been dreaming for 500 years of freeing themselves from turkish slavery and uniting with their serbian brothers west of Drina, i.e. with Serbia. Those who converted to Islam got privileges and joined the exploiters side, becoming part of ruling turkish-muslim authorities (over non muslim peasants, since Bosnia was predominantly an agriculture economy) and were therefore excomunicated from (bosnian) Serbs and Croats (both in latter's and in their own understanding of national identity) and started to call themselves simply (bosnian) Muslims (while also all of the folk/religion bosnian groups called themselves also "Bosanci", i.e. "Bosnians", as a kind of regional marker). It was first in Tito's socialistic Yugoslavia that name- and category Muslim (with capital letter) became even officialy recognised as an nationality option, since bosnian muslims felt bad to be counted only either as (bosnian) Croats or Serbs, so they asked Tito about it and got it from him, since some of them fought bravely in Tito's partisans during WWII (while the others fought on Pavelic's and Hitler's side, for instance joining the notorious SS Handschar division, made mainly of them and even of Croats). Even state statistics shows that austro-hungarian main aim and ambition of annexation of Bosnia was a typical imperialistic one, since the level of illiteracy (among other things, no time and energy now to go in details) before/after Bosnia being austrian - remained almost the same (and big) and infrastructure invested and build from Austria (railway net, etc) was there mainly for exploitation of bosnian woods, harvest, etc, typically for an Empire against it's colony. Would even warmly recommend a short article about Schutzkorps in Wikipedia and good and interasting recent serbian film with young actors about assassination (there are subtitles in English), here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7pzo91pyNymhZ8.html Enjoy!🙂

i dont understand how you dont have at least 3k subs lol

Prussia wanted to unite Germany without Austria's other ethnic groups, Austria wanted to unite Germany with all ethnic groups under German rule. Prussian plan got succeed under Otto and then Hitler took that plan of Germany for Germans even further. Hence no wonder if Austrian plan of uniting Germany succeeded, not only there would be a larger geographical area for Germany but an ethnically diverse population living peacefully and contributing socially and culturally. Nonetheless European Union is dominated by Germany now and indirectly a German Empire just by how much influence on its economy Germany now plays.

World War I End of video

8:59 Adm. Miklos Horthy.

why were the Czech speaking lands of Bohemia and Moravia part of the the German Confederation?

woodrow wilson

People always forget Croatian role in all this Austria-Hungary Habsburg Monarchy. 1. Josip Jelačić 1848 2. Emil Uzelac 3. Austria-Hungary Navy (the most members were Croats) 4. Pragmatic Sanction in 1712 5. Cetingradski sabor 1527

The creation of the Dual Monarchy was yet another example of what I call a "Habsburg Compromise" because it pleased no one The more conservative elements in government were upset as they felt it gave the Hungarians too much power and they weren't totally wrong as Franz Joseph wanted to aid France during the Franco-Prussian War, but the Hungarians were against it,so the Dual Monarchy sat the war out. The other minorities/peoples in the empire were very discontent and were openly saying "What about us? "Why don't we have a say?"

Thanks for stating that Austria Hungary needed the help of Germany even against Serbia, the same happened to Romania except that Romania was never fully occupied

Austria Hungary empire is a confusing empire, they didn't do well with the different countries as the British, Russian, and many others.

why was Austria Hungary so bad at assimilating and unifying the non German populations?

I miss the German Monarchy, Habsburg Monarchy, And China Monarchy.

This video makes me think even more that you crying it's just part of Russia and they basically have no right to exist as an independent nation

British and French CAN’T DRAW MAP!

Poor franz. So much death. The loser kaiser