the roots of ww i - part 2 - ottoman empire
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The Roots of WW I - Part 2 - Ottoman Empire
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The Roots of World War I
Part Two – Ottoman Empire
Part Two – Ottoman Empire
• Decline throughout the 1800s– Crimean War 1853-56 fought over territory
Balkan Wars 1912 & 1913
• Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia have achieved independence
• Attacked Ottoman Empire, kicking them out of the Balkans after 500 years
• Kingdom of Serbia
Unification or Death
• Founded in 1901 to unify Southern Slavs
Unification or Death
• October 1908, Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina
Unification or Death
• May 1911, splinter group forms• “The Black Hand”• goal of a Greater Serbia, through violence if
necessary
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