![]() “Favour rapid mobilisation and deployment, dramatic strategies involving sudden flanking movements of armies or dramatic breakthrough assaults, and freewheeling tactics of maneuver”.Explains a source of pressure to Germany – but insufficient to cause the war.Expansionism was an alternative to social democracy.Coalition of Rye and Iron: landed aristocrats controlled military campaigns and domestic reforms. ![]() Social problems: German elites supported ideas of world hegemony to distract the poor from failure to integration domestic society.Austria fought Serbs to quell Balkan nationalism – revenge from the assasination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was a pretext used to justify war.Balkan state fell to chao over spoils of war, and Serbia took the lead.Balkan wars of 1912 to push the Turks out.Balkan’s seccession movement from Turkish rule.Corruption and weak government in Ottoman.Large empires were threathen by nationalism.Internal crisis of the declining Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires WW1 was also opposed by bankers and businesses.War did not happen when economic rivalry between France and Britain over Britain’s N-S line from South Africa to Egypt clashed with E-W line of colonies in Africa.Communist view that WW1 was the final stage of capitalist imperialism.Reject: “war caused by financial capitalist.” More unwillingness to compromise in bargainsĭomestic society, politics and government.Rise in complacency about prolonged peace. ![]() ![]() Pan-Slavism was a threat to Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, and this was met with Anti-Slavic nationalism in Germany – stronger than socialism vs capitalism, and Aristocratic or monarchical solidarity could not stop it.Processes – that led to the lack of moderation : Transnational ideas ![]()
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