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