Empire and nationalism

Question 1

Ottoman decline

Answer 1

Bulgarian atrocities

young tires revolution

Question 2

Russia’s internal weaknesses

Answer 2

1. secret parties
2. cultural linguistic and national revival
3. emigration of intellectuals

Question 3

Germany’s foreign policy objectives

Answer 3

Creating an empire
avoiding an international French-led coalition against them
avoiding being attacked by Russia (fear of railways)
having an alliance with ottomans against Russia and the British

Question 4

Scramble for africa

Answer 4

by 1895 10% of africa was not a colony
1884-1885 Berlin conference
international imperial rivalry

Question 5

Franco-British relations

Answer 5

Suez Canal crisis
Fashoda incident
1904-entente cordiale—->support to France during the moroccan crises

Question 6

Franco-German relations

Answer 6

2 moroccan cries (conference of al-geciras and incident of agar)

Question 7

Balkan wars

Answer 7

-Montenegro, Serbia and Greece engage in wr against the Ottomans to free Bulgaria. Eventually they get into war together and ottomans get back into Bulgaria.

Question 8

Systems of alliances

Answer 8

Alliance of the three emperors (Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany)
Triple Alliance (Italy, Germany, Austro-Hungary)
Anglo-Russian Convention (1907)- triple entente
Germany allied with the Ottoman Empire- railway from Berlin to Baghdad

Question 9

Fischer

Answer 9

German’s welatpolitik that leads the content into war.

defence of Sonderweg (authoritarianism that causes war- prima Der innenpolitik

Question 10

Burbank and Cooper

Answer 10

empire is about managing diversity

Question 11

Arendt

Answer 11

Imeprialism: international capitalism, while political maintaining the nation-state.

Question 12

Lieven

Answer 12

Russian empire, fragile from within (nationalist pressures); beginnings of industrial growth and popular disturbances. Objective to seize Istanbul

Question 13

Sims

Answer 13

Germany’s need to defeat Russia before it becomes too powerful

Question 14

McMeekin

Answer 14

Germany’s need to get the Ottoman Empire as an ally

Question 15

Hastings, clark, McMillan

Answer 15

guilt has been attributed to germany, but it was everyone’s fault
the problem is to be located in the balkans

Question 16

MacMillan

Answer 16

Nothing is resolved by the war. The solution comes with the end of world war 2.

Question 17

Causes world war i

Answer 17

Problems in the balkans

time to take the bet for germany (before Russia is too powerful): getting quickly in France through Belgium