Why did Austria-Hungary Collapse?

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[@Ahmedt999]

Why don't you make a video about the uyunid and their war against qaramita and how the holy black stone was returned from qatif back to the kaba. The story of the uyunids and the qaramita is one of the most important stories which greatly impacted the history of Muslim.

[@asgardplays7139]

Will you do the video about Czechoslovak legion 🙂?

[@DelijeSerbia]

Bosnians was not a thing as that is just the name for all people in that region. Bosniaks is on the other hand a name chosen by the muslim population of Bosnia that stopped identifying with their Serbian and Croatian origins.

[@TheChangelingBrony]

You should go into more detail rather than doing a summary

[@joefalkens9834]

Austria-Hungary had no common national flag, just a civil ensign on navy and merchant ships, which you could'nt see on the field, just in the seas.

[@edtrent3789]

Both my grandparents fought for Austria-Ungary and were very proud to be part of it even though not German speakers.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

It's honestly really impressive that the Austrian Empire (and later Austria-Hungary) managed to stay unified without a major revolution between 1850 and 1914, despite the fact the country had 10+ minorities. Also the fact that Austria-Hungary managed to build the 2nd largest European railway, the 3rd largest oil production, the 4th largest machine-building industry and the 3rd manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances worldwide with its rapidly growing economy. The Ottomans meanwhile collapsed much quicker and had a far more backwards economy. The main reasons why Austria-Hungary collapsed was because of its military defeats in 1914-18, high inflation, and most notably, food. Many farmers producing food for the empire were needed for the war, the Russian invasion of Galicia destroyed food production, and the British naval blockade hurt the Central Powers a lot. By 1918 it was pretty much too late to reform the empire, but before WW1 or maybe even in the early WW1 stages it was still possible to reform it. Independence parties in the 1907 & 1911 Austrian elections all combined didn't even reach 1% of the votes and the other minorities of Austria-Hungary simply wanted more national autonomy, not independence until 1918. I believe people like Franz Ferdinand and Charles I could've reformed the empire if WW1 had been delayed.

[@franzxaverjosephconradgraf6850]

Well it didn't revolt because mist of the minorities loved Franz Joseph and they're more loyal to him than to the Empire. So they didn't see a point of revolting as for them till Franz Joseph was in the throne they viemently believed that he would do what's best for his people.

[@alexzero3736]

Ottomans is a different story, they had period of Tanzimat with effort to make all peoples equal, but than more radical sultan came and oppression returned, even more so with Young Turks revolution, who don't want Ottoman empire anymore to made it empire of Turkish peoples ( Turan). Also Ottoman empire was heavily subsidized by UK to revive its ability to stand as bulwark against Russian expansionism.

[@Odin00]

No way this is not gpt

[@mochimitsu7]

They doomed themselves (and Europe, and the world to that matter) by declaring war on Serbia so quickly. Of course it was terrible the next in line was murdered, but I understand they didn't even flinch to accuse Serbia for it, for something I'm not even sure the Serbian government knew about or was involved with. History is just unbelievable some times.

[@Belegthevarno]

it took 300 years for Ottomans to collapse. But Ottomans were very very backwards compared to them.

[@joeshar.]

Hungarians in Empire: We want independence ✊ Ethnic Groups in Hungary: We want independence too ✊✊✊ -Wait what? You can't do that.

[@ZoltGz]

Well... The first minority rights were proclaimed and enacted by the revolutionary Parliament of Hungary in July 1849, and before that we had a revolution against the Austrian empire and the Russian empire 1 v 2 , first country in europe to have rights for minorities.

[@alexzero3736]

​@@ZoltGzright... Serbs and Romanians who revolted against Hungary were just psycho.

[@zoltan6451]

I guess​@@alexzero3736

[@zoltan6451]

​@@alexzero3736they got paid by Austrians and were supported later on by Austrians also 👍 all because they were mad Hungary won against the Habsburg army so you know grudges

[@zoltan6451]

​@@alexzero3736also in 1848 Hungarians didnt fight alone 👍

[@nohoneynomoney7072]

If the federalism were to be succeeded, their new name would be Austria-Hungary-Bosnia-Herzegovina-Croatia-Slovenia-Slovakia-Czechia Empire👍🏻

[@jreiland07]

That red-green naval ensign with the two crowns is one of the best looking flags ever made

[@SolidAvenger1290]

After the Hungarian Revolutions of 1848 into the opening stages of the 1853 Crimean War, Austria-Hungary was facing its darkest hour as its prestige was greatly diminishing & experiencing such domestic turmoil across the board that it set up the plot towards WW1. Later, the wars with France & Prussia in the 19th century would make the empire barely a 2nd tier power in Europe behind Prussia/The German Empire and would become the dominant leading state for finalizing German unification amid decades of German Dualism. Militarily, Austria-Hungary depended on the Russians for aid during the centuries of war with France, who were the major rivals of the Habsburgs, seeing they wanted to destroy the Holy Roman Empire's influence in Europe. After the Crimean War, they lost that safety net, and the Russians never forgave the Austrian-Hunagarians.

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@alexzero3736]

Yes... Also after defeats in 1866 Austrian Empire switched foreign policy focus to Balkans, region of Russian interest.

[@seaman5705]

Austria-Hungary did not exist at 1848 or 1856 . More, the Hungarians fought against the Austrians at 1848 Revolution , which in turn asked the Russian Empire for help . Weakening military strength of the Austrians and defeats against Prusians and Italians , made the them share the power with the Hungarians in 1867 .

[@TheWolverine01]

Nationalisim in WW1 : 🙂 Nationalisim in WW2 : ☹

[@stevenbodo965]

Nationalism in 2023:?

[@javiervll8077]

I loved this video!! ❤️ The Austro-Hungarian Empire 🇦🇹🇭🇺 has always caught my attention, since it was a great economic power with important cities (Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Krakow...) and was home to many different nationalities (Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes and Romanians). I wonder what would have happened if this Empire had not disappeared after the First World War. 🤔🤔

[@SanatkumarBhosale]

It would have operated as a federal republic just like India With a slight edge to Deutsch in official matters

[@malac8860]

Central Europe would most likely be a better place with better development etc.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

Who knows ...but back than not all Germans used to be Austrians but certainly all Austrians used to be the Germans...So yeah ...The dissolution. of the Empire and double standards at the Peace conference certainly planted some very bad seeds for the future

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@ZoltGz]

Ww2 might of not happend

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

It's the problem with Ruling a nation made of different nationalities that are so different

[@kaanrivis]

USA don’t agree with this

[@sobertowelie3267]

​@@kaanrivisThe CHAZ, the South, California and Cascadia do, though.

[@rg10mex]

@@barabuleso They tried this but it was too late, it also makes me remember that at the end of the spanish empire there was a Constitution that gave the same rights to Spanish people from the peninsula and the people of the colonies, but it was too late and also the peninsula was busy figthing against the French invasion.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

Too many iredentists...Everyone wanted the state within the state or full on secession ( Poles,Serbs,Italians, Romanians) and the rest wanted creation of their own viceroyal entities within Hungary and Austria...Still if that country did not fully anex Bosnia and Herzegovina that country could survive some time longer ....Though the idea that Austria Hungarian military was weak is false...Only on the Serbian front it was weak ,was doing not so bad against Russians and against Italians and later Americans ( who were helping them ) Austrians and Hungarians were victorious ..What broke them down militarily was Allied offensive on Salonica front.With Bulgaria out of the war and Serbians ,French and British advancing into Panonia... Romanians advancing ...Italian iredenta started to stalk from the rear,South Slavs and the rest started to desert the imperial army and were going back to their villages and towns in the empire and they formed the band's of thugs were criminal elements ran the affairs .The centralised government just collapsed...

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@theawesomeman9821]

And with one bullet, an Empire collapsed...

[@thetruechaby]

Jeez, it wasn't due to a single bullet, but many, many other ones.

[@alexzero3736]

With one old emperors and his stupid subordinates.

[@RunyiriNjoroge]

Count the German empire and the Russian empire

[@gregguralnik2512]

​@@thetruechabyhe ain't totally wrong. Nationalism in the Slavic countries, whether under the Ottoman Empire or the Austria-Hungarian Empire's control, has been growing for a long time, leading up to Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie. And before that happened, there were the two Balkan Wars; Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece vs. Turkey. Later, Bulgaria vs Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Romania. And to top that off, the Balkan countries have been fighting with each other and even amongst their own people, so it was bound to happen no matter what. The Balkans weren't called Europe's Powder Keg for nothing.

[@majorgeneral7009]

0:47 And this collapse was brought to you by War Thunder

[@dantetre]

0:05 In 1867 Buda and Pest were not united!

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Simply put it was a dynasty that lasted Hundreds of years, It only took one man to bring it down

[@psihodelija8917]

Принцип Гаврило

[@patrickjeffers7864]

I think it was eisner in Bavaria 1918 who said "the wittelsbachs ruled Bavaria for 700 yrs. I got rid of them in 7 hrs with 7 men"

[@Esteba-xl2kp]

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[@alexzero3736]

You that not simple, you put that ridiculous.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@alexzero3736 then explain genius

[@HistoryHussar]

Only Hungarians were given the chance to become equal partners in 1867, because they were the only serious group that could threaten the existence of the empire from within (whereas the Prussians were the main external threat). Croatia was also a kingdom, but it was Hungary's junior partner - and it remained loyal to the Habsburgs in the 19th century, along with the other ethnic minorities, so they were simply viewed as useful assets, nothing more. Internal strife increased after 1900, but this alone could never threaten the empire's existence. However, whereas the Great Powers had wanted to keep Austria around (because they did not know what to replace it with and maintain the balance of power in Europe), at the end of WW1, they believed that they had found the recipe. A chain of smaller nation states would isolate Soviet Russia and also block German ambitions in Central Europe. Therefore, Austria-Hungary was no longer needed, so it was discarded. This idea of course incorrect. France was too far away to maintain its influence over the region, and the new status quo essentially guaranteed German hegemony in the 1930s, once the country recovered economically.

[@Gosudar]

I wouldn't say that Austria lost 60% of it's territory. These "Austrian" lands were officially called "Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council". As you can see, there is no "Austria" in the name of this country. And for a good reason. Unlike Hungary, these lands never formed a single country. The Habsburg monarchy that eventually evolved into Austria-Hungary started in 1526 as a personal union between Austria, Bohemia (Czechia) and Hungary. Austria was an Archduchy, while Bohemia and Hungary were kingdoms, i.e. they were above Austria in terms of hierarchy/precedence (plus the king of Bohemia was a prince-elector, unlike the archduke of Austria). Bohemia/Czechia never belonged to Austria (as in present-day "German" Austria), they were merely ruled by the same person/dynasty and eventually happened to be known collectively as "Austria" or the "Austrian Empire". But this was really just an umbrella term. When the empire collapsed, this meaning of the word "Austria" ended with it. The remaing Archduchy of Austria and the other Austrian lands (Styria, Tyrol, etc.) had no historical claim on the other parts of the former empire. The only territory Austria actually lost was Carniola (Slovenia), Istria and Trieste and South Tyrol.

[@alexzero3736]

Actually Croatia also was in union with Hungary.

[@Gosudar]

@user-dl7ju Except it wasn't the same kind of union. Czechia/Bohemia was a unitary state before eventually the autonomy was granted to Moravia. However, the supreme ruler of the Crown had always been the King of Bohemia. Habsburg monarchy, on the other hand, was a true personal union. The archduke of Austria had no authority over Bohemia, the only way he could rule there was as the King of Bohemia.

[@Gosudar]

@user-dl7ju Again, the key difference here is that the Margrave od Moravia was subordinate to the King of Bohemia. The Crown was not a personal union, it was a realm of its own, even when divided into autonomous crownlands. Habsburg monarchy, on the other hand, started as a personal union of three realms (Austria, Bohemia/Czechia and Hungary). They were separate countries with no connection between them other than they were ruled by the same person. This is NOT what the Crown of Bohemia was. It changed later on during the process of centralization of the monarchy, but that's another story.

[@Gosudar]

@user-dl7ju It's funny when you accuse someone of simplifying in a nationalistic manner whilst calling the HRE the "German Empire". And no, I was calling Czechia a unitary state before the Margraviate of Moravia was created in 1182. The Emperor (again, there was no "German Emperor") didn't give them to John of Luxembourg. He had no right to do so. It was the Czech nobility who asked him to marry his son to the Přemyslid princess Elisabeth and thus become the new Czech king after the death of her brother king Wencelasus III. Matthias Corvinus was accepted as the Margrave of Moravia only because he was also the claimant (antiking) of the Bohemian throne. He was elected the king of Bohemia during the joint session of Bohemian and Moravian Catholic nobilty in 1469.

[@Ratta907]

Wasn’t this similar with the German empire which wasn’t a totally unified entity but a bunch of kingdoms united under the king of Prussia (simplified) yet they still said they lost much of their land specifically the Prussians and their militaristic agenda. If that can happen it’s not much of a surprise if Austria can do the same as well and it may even have the right to as it was the one who conquered those lands as well (apart from Bosnia which technically could be considered a combined Hungar-Austrian effort). Edit: The Hungarians did claim their lands and continue to do so today for example.

[@viktorvoloder1467]

Great I love this topics .Thank you for your time to make this!👍Keep it up!Love for Serbia🇷🇸

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@gs637]

Excellent.... simple & clear!

[@depekthegreat359]

A truthful video of course for the fall of the Austro-Hungarian which was quite bizarre honestly,good friends!!!

[@JDR2525]

So...with out getting too technical ( you can read these points in books and encyclopedias).... The Hapsburgs married into the Hungarian monarchy, thus acquiring Hungary. Hungary had been a kingdom for hundreds of years before hand since medieval times. The Hungarian kingdom had been recognized as a Holy Christian kingdom by the Pope and its rulers given a Holy crown by the Pope. Due to the invasios of the Mongols and later Ottoman invasions, the Hungarian ethnic Magyar populations were devastated. As time past and history went on the Hungarian nobility turned to a policy of open immigration to remedy this. For becoming loyal citizens of the Kingdom of Hungary the new influx of Germans, Poles, Slavs, Checzs, Croatians, Romanians, etc were allowed to live on or own the land, farm, conduct business and trade etc. Provided they paid their taxes and swore fealty to their Hungarian lords, and uphold the laws of the kingdom all would be fine. So it was thought and you can see where this would lead. Hungarian nobility and citizenry were never very happy with their kingdom becoming vassals of the Austrian Hapsburgs. This lead to many uprisings and political machinations until the formation of the Dual Empire status, such as the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. But still turmoil persisted up to WW1. History has discovered that Hungarian independence movements and forces have been linked to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, working with and or supplying Serbian independence groups at the time. The Treaty of Trianon stripped the Kingdom of Hungary of her lands including Transylvania which had been ruled by Magyar lords since the Kingdoms founding. Now although many ethnic peoples had come to call these torn away territories as home the lands still held millions of Hungarians, 3.3 million, 31% of the Hungarian population, as well.

[@Andrei99k]

Because it was a well organised state and everything went marvellous, lol.

[@AB-oh6qy]

9:45 How can Austro-Hungarian land fall back into Italian hand when these territories had never been part of Italy before?

[@arullgodwin4729]

I guess, it had Italian speakers around that region, so Italy wanted to take it from the Empire. That's one of the main reasons why Italy joined the war on the side of allies and to bring national identity as it was a newly formed country

[@Zantides]

The song is: Jon Björk: The Great War

[@faenethlorhalien]

At the time or wasn’t known officially as Lviv or Lvov. It was Lemberg. If you use the names the countries had at the time, you must do the same for cities.

[@ciripa]

the video has educational purposes, purpose of the video is not to learn medieval/ancient names...we are living in the present day, ppl know present day names etc, not everyone knows history and even those who do u think they know ancient or medieval names,? they are irelevant for the theme of the video....they will learn more if you start or give them smthing familiar, in this case a map....an american maybe has heard of lvos but of lemberg??

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@ciripa What kind of nonsense is this? You were probably taught in English class that proper names are not translated unless a proper name already exists in the language. Should we now force the English-speaking world to call München, no longer Munich, and Nürnberg, no longer Nuremberg? And what about Italian? Do they now have to say München and no longer Monaco di Bavaria? I'm sorry for you, who appeared very late on the map. But these rules have been in effect for a long time and are international. Live with them!

[@Maxhartmann2024]

@@ciripaare you going to call the capital of Eastern Roman Empire Istanbul as well?

[@HashimyHuseini]

The zame for zagreb I thonk it was called Igram

[@holmbjerg]

It could never work unless the individual nations within a union were given broad autonomy.

[@Gorboduc]

"Served as a powder keg, ill-fated to blow at any given notice." What... *what language* is that?!?

[@fatherofhistory]

Very informative video about the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I've always been fascinated by this period in history. I especially found the discussion of nationalism and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to be very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[@brokenbridge6316]

If only the Austrian Emperor worked much harder to keep his Empire together after joining with Hungry. Would history have been different had that occurred.

[@stevenbodo965]

"joining"? interesting choice of word

[@ETBrothers]

Thanks for this teaching!

[@natuna23]

love this topics amazing content as always, but please add subtitle maybe?

[@Quarida6002]

I think the main reason behind the collapse of the empire is the weird dystopic wildlife of Australia.

[@p382742937423y4]

Hahahhaahah😂

[@bartomiejzakrzewski7220]

German dynasty rule over 80% Slavic people on their theritory ... This had to end badly but we Poles head fredom of Languege, culture and science ... Long Live Emperor Francis :D

[@PapaOscarNovember]

Eastern Europe fractured through Balkanization and WW1, during an era when large super states emerged, either through industrialization induced population growth (UK, France, Russia) or political merger (Germany, Italy). As a result they became pebbles to be played with by emerging great powers. Quite tragic. Unity would have served them much better (a hindsight, ofc).

[@br1ognloid]

thanks for the video! But why is it not indicated on the map that the Ukrainians founded the WUPR (Western Ukrainian People's Republic)? eastern Galicia didn’t immediately go to Poland, but was occupied during the Ukrainian war with the Poles and with the Soviets at the same time

[@lerneanlion]

If I said that Austria was doomed because of the fall of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, will anyone believed me? Here's my reason. Prussia was part of the Commonwealth. And when the Commonwealth was beginning to not do well, Prussia jumped ship. And when the Commonwealth finally collapsed, Prussia even pariticipated in the Partition of Poland to gain more territories. And when the German Question rose, Prussia declared war on Austria in order to remove Austria's influence from the Southern German States and won. And when that happened, Austria was doomed. So in order for Austria to survive, it needed to be the one that unify Germany. And in order for that to happen, the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania needed to remain strong so that Prussia will not dared to jump ship.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

Interesting thinking ...but it's very long way to the acctual events that really pushed the Empire down the hill.Its more Italian,Serbian,South Slav/ Croat ,and Romanian question .That annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina in 1908. and 1903. regicide in Serbia was definitely the reason that led to the war and later on to demise of the Empire.They could handle any of those smaller new countries by one hand but together in Balcan pact plus alliances around the globe was too much even for Austria Hungary

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Poland-Lithuania should've helped Austria in the Seven Years' War and/or Russia shouldn't have pulled out, then Prussia would be gone.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

@@radomirratkovic9014 Austria-Hungary was pretty much capable enough to take Serbia or Italy in a fair 1v1 fight without allies, but with Russian interventions like Galicia and the Brusilov offensive Austria-Hungary was instead completely helpless without German support. Austria-Hungary also offered to give Italy Trentino in late 1914 to reduce tensions, but that didn't prevent Italy from joining the far bigger Entente a few months later.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

@@TheAustrianAnimations87 Agree...There were very much aligned with Russia and France back in 1912. Bulgaria rebeled and than everyone jumped poor Bulgars and in 1914 .Central Powers have been provoked into premature action .

[@GoodEveningDota]

anyobody knows what music is it from 10:38 onwards? I searched many songs in the Epidemic Sound repertoire and I couldn't find it

[@Ahmedt999]

Why don't you make a video about the uyunid and their war against qaramita and how the holy black stone was returned from qatif back to the kaba. The story of the uyunids and the qaramita is one of the most important stories which greatly impacted the history of Muslim

[@lordInquisitor]

Question for the experts : Could a federation like system ( similar to the usa union or the German one ) have been put in place from its founding and would it have helped at all ?

[@stevenbodo965]

One thing to consider is that the Habsburgs were not Prussians and had very different ideology.

[@lordInquisitor]

@@stevenbodo965 yes I am aware of that. However my main question is that if the nation was organized into a union similar to the usa where states have specified powers and the federal has other powers would that have helped

[@stevenbodo965]

@@lordInquisitor I'm confused. The Austrian empire was a collection of nations, led, controlled and owned by the Austrians. The other nations were their colonies.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

@@stevenbodo965 Crown lands and colonies are not the same when non-Austrian people in fact had autonomy and even could vote in elections since 1907. The only real colony was a small part in Tianjin, but even then those people had Austrian citizenship, unlike the other imperialist powers.

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

@@lordInquisitor I think it could've worked, especially with the good economic situation before the war (considering Austria also didn't have a single major rebellion since 1849).

[@sethbartley2212]

the second half of this video is just a repeat of the first half (which itself is just a repeat of the thesis sentence over and over). This video is like 1min of actual content. How disappointing.

[@thetruechaby]

What's even more disappointing is how they still make so many mistakes, despite the commentators pointing them out in every single video.

[@jorgbuhler4521]

First I think Austria-Hungary simply existed "in the wrong century". 1867-1918 - this coincides with the surge of European nationalism. Pseudo-federalism with minor concessions for the Slavic minorities were not enough, they wanted full freedom, which meant the creation of fully independent states. The video rightfully says the monarch offered "too little too late". And >100 years ago, when nationalism was strong in Europe, some minor concessions were simply not enough. But imagine in a dream such a multi-ethnic state existed in today's Europe and it were a democracy, whether with a monarch as formal head of state or not, doesn't matter. Such a state of Austria-Hungary 2.0 if it existed today would be a role model (or: playground) for the European Union. If minority rights are respected all nations will work together, a multi-ethnic entity will develop and thrive. However if in such a multi-ethnic state one nation (typically the one with the capital) tries to dominate the others, we will always end up with an authoritarian government, and sooner or later there will be bloody wars. See Yugoslavia, Russia. I am intentionally using the plural "wars" because both Yugoslavia (30 years ago) and Russia (today) ended up in a series of military conflicts with other nations because they thought they had a natural right to rule over them. Nationalism is a mental illness, it tries to create purity where diversity is appropriate. Every freedom-loving human being must fight against the return of nationalism - nowadays called populism. Again xenophobic movements with slogans like "Our nation XY first", "Make country XY great again" and "all the power to our leader XY" are spreading in Europe like a fungus and already rule in countries like Russia, Hungary, Poland, maybe soon Slovakia. But replace a seemingly boring leadership with a strongman "a guy who finally has guts", a guy who bangs his fist on the table, who promises to blow up the system, and you will get a guy who will scare the guts out of everyone, including you, he will bang on your head and God knows what else he will blow up. There is a Polish saying meant as a curse: "May you live in historic times!" Fortunately most European countries are still ruled by liberals, but freedom comes at a price: The rule of law and a political system of checks and balances means constant readiness for compromise. I will call everybody a populist who tells me he knows simple solutions for complex problems. In a stable democracy one Gavrilo Princip cannot cause a world war. But if there are oppressed minorities and he has their support, he might succeed... That was "democracy in 5 minutes". 😊

[@prohacker5086]

Well we had USSR until 1990s, it didn't work out. We had a smaller, more liberal and more homogenous (linguistically) Yugoslavia until 1990s, didnt work out. Hell, even Czechoslovakia didn't work out. At this point I'm pretty convinced that democracy just doesn't work without complete ethnic dominance of a single group over the others.

[@jorgbuhler4521]

@prohacker5086 The USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were all dictatorships to various degrees. Russians clearly dominated the USSR. The Serbs in Yugoslavia despised the other Slavs and after Tito's death tried to run the country on their terms alone. Czechoslovakia is a special case. The Czechs didn't really dominate the country, they simply had more influence and economic power, i. e. industry was concentrated heavily in Czech lands (a legacy of Austria-Hungary). Anyway, when the Slovaks split off, not a single shot was fired. A simple treaty and that was it. I admit, in a multi-ethnic country there should be a lingua franca, typically it is the language that the majority speaks as mother tongue. Switzerland is the exception: Three or four groups (German, French, Italian and another one) seem to be getting along for centuries without any major conflicts. There was never significant separatism, no violence, only local politicians arguing about which language should be used under which conditions. Switzerland is an age-old democracy, maybe that's the difference.

[@prohacker5086]

@@jorgbuhler4521 Don't get me wrong, I'm just a Turk trying to migrate to Germany. I want to think otherwise but it just seems to me like EU is a loose federation sitting between Czechoslovakia and Switzerland in terms of being a country. Much like the former there is seperatism amongst the groups because of economic imbalance, but also like the latter where there is some consensus on policies albeit among the representatives instead of directly among the population. I just hope that EU gets its sh*t together and starts following some logical path, like actually limiting illegal migration and putting up some damn solar panels.

[@alexzero3736]

Russia is very different case. Russian national element still dominant in the country, despite huge population drop in 90s. Austrian Empire had only approximately 25% of ethnic Germans. USSR spread Russian language on big territory and assimilation was in progress... Even today you can hear Kazakhs or Uzbeks speaking Russian.

[@nein236]

@@prohacker5086 A Turk migrating to germany? Man...we have enough of you here

[@libertas5005]

7:23 _"The South Slavs were hoping to join Serbia"_ - incorrect. Serb minorities in Croatia and Bosnia were hoping to join Serbia. Which is why Gavrilo mugged Ferdinand in the first place. Bosniaks and Croats were proudly defending Austria-Hungary to the last day of war. Look up Bosniak regiments in the k.u.k. Armee.

[@nicochevez2124]

So owesome and interesting thank you pleasd do more!! ❤🙏

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

May be Austria Hungary empire was not capable to stepping forwarder in parallel to French, italy and Britain's...on civilization road and geopolitical competitions...simply its left behind USA and Britain's...similar to Ottomans, Russia...

[@MarkRobinMalana]

From The Holy Roman Empire to Habsburg to Austro-Hungarian Empire up to the division of Austria by US UK France and Russia to what we now know Austria. Nothing is forever. Everything has its hayday, flatline, and worst downfall. We do not hold the future.

[@trueedm6115]

Ancient Greece: Invented democracy and philosophy. Also invented arguing with strangers for fun, so not much has changed.

[@Stalker950-l3x]

It’s not “slovenians, croatians, serbians, bosnians” but the “kingdom of serbs, croats and slovenes”.

[@libertas5005]

yeah because both croats and serbs were denying bosnian nationhood, which is one of the reasons why that region will always be a powder keg. Serbs and Croats are both nationalistic tribes who commit genocide every time someone else tries to emancipate their nationhood in that region.

[@jambudvipi]

Conjoined nations always do: •Czechoslovakia •Polish-Lithuanianian Commonwealth •Serbia-Montenegro Bosnia-Hercegovina may be next because the Serbs are a a majority within its Srpska Republic

[@libertas5005]

"srpska republic" is just an administrative unit within Bosnia-Herzegovina. It has no sovereignty of any kind other than being an internal political entity, as defined by the Constitution and the peace agreement. If Serbs want to provoke another Balkan war, sure, they can try to secede, but that would be considered unlawful and would easily be resolved by NATO intervention.

[@-General_Bek-]

Germany actually had Alsace-Lorrainein 1914, no?

[@Charlie-phlezk]

I have a 1902 1000 koruna note from the Austro-Hungarian empire.

[@НиколайРоманов-л6ю]

Ironically, Austria-Hungary's thirst for Bosnia would eventually lead to its downfall

[@libertas5005]

7:23 _"The South Slavs were hoping to join Serbia"_ - incorrect. Serb minorities in Croatia and Bosnia were hoping to join Serbia. Which is why Gavrilo mugged Ferdinand in the first place. Bosniaks and Croats were proudly defending Austria-Hungary to the last day of war. Look up Bosniak regiments in the k.u.k. Armee.

[@TheSgrizli]

The map where it shows italian ethnic group in the empire is wrong

[@scottjuhnke6825]

Franz Ferdinand had abandoned the idea of Trialism well before his assassination.

[@starkilr101]

This video reminds me of the question I’ve had of “What would’ve happened if WWI didn’t happen?”

[@aleskosir2727]

I listened to an Austrian hustorian on ÖRF. He said austrian empiror started to many wars. They lost them, and AH KK in the end.too.

[@micahistory]

It's interesting that Austria survived as long as it did but the rise of nationalism killed it

[@DeusVultConstantinople]

10:40 your map is inaccurate. The city was NOT Lviv, it was called Lemberg. Then it was renamed to Lwow because there were Polish who lived there, not Ukrainians. Ukrainians moved there after WW2 redrawing of broders.

[@fredrikcarlstedt393]

Austria should have been allowed to Anschluss with Germany around 1918 - 1919 .

[@greenback6093]

Why you show the Romanian flag at 8:01 if you speak about: Hungary was free, and Austria Hungary had gone up in flames?

[@dantetre]

12:20 The empire was split on railroad lines! On both sides of the new border Hungarians were living!

[@SiskoSvK]

So did Slovaks, Austrians, Romanians etc. whats your point???

[@memeboiii8089]

3:16 Why is Alsace Lorraine not part of Germany???

[@danisoutfirst2738]

I found a mistake on your thumbnail, Poland and Ukraine split the Kingdom of Galicia-Lodomeria into Poland and the WUPR. As the kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria was 🇺🇦🇵🇱

[@OFFENDYOU365]

The us did this!😢

[@chiy828]

It survive as of today . The place is Called Canada .. if there were no WWI and Russia they might still survive

[@purecalm3160]

Really wonder what could of happened if at the moment Austria became Austria-Hungary in 1867 it instead became a federation of Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Ruthenia (pols and Ukrainians) and Transylvania and adopted a similar constitution to the US, think it could still exist?

[@ssh0ck138]

Poles are not rurhenians…

[@ssh0ck138]

@@Eltonthaqis Yes, but I’m referring to him calling Poles Ruthenians, not Ukrainians….

[@purecalm3160]

@@ssh0ck138 I'm aware of that, but Ukrainians and poles are very similar in many ways and given how poles made up such a small population of the austrian empire to begin with it seems likely that if they were to form a federation of a bunch of different states they would lump Ukrainians and Poles together (similar to Czechoslovakia) rather than create two mini states, I only used the the term Ruthenia as it has a historical precedent in the region and sounds better than something like Poloukrainia

[@ssh0ck138]

@@purecalm3160 Poles and Ukrainians are not similar. While Polish culture is based on Roman Catholicism and Latin culture of Christendom, Ukrainian one is based on orthodoxy and pretty much resembles the Russian one. Ruthenia also claimed the lands of Belarus, hence it would not make any sense to use this term in the Empire that claims only a small part of the region. Moreover, Poles made up 10% of the empire in terms of population (4.976.804 - 9.68%), which is pretty much enough to create a separate administrative region. However, it would be in the Austrian interest to put those two different ethnicities in one, as it would be beneficial to control them, by creating conflicts between each other.

[@ZoltGz]

The first minority rights were proclaimed and enacted by the revolutionary Parliament of Hungary in July 1849, and before that we had a revolution against the Austrian empire and the Russian empire 1 v 2 , first country in europe to have rights for minorities.And look how It turned out.. Too Many rights.

[@robertsevier4113]

WAIT at 5:56 it says "Trust in Vienna had soared!" OOPS! I think you mean the opposite! (Slightly Big Mistake?)

[@jtsnowman66]

Your narrator needs to be the new “In a world….” guy 😂

[@lukacvitanovic1206]

-Hey Knowledgia,I dont want to offend you ,but in your Video where you show the German Empire,when it was formed,you didnt include the Alsace Lorraine teritory,because The German Empire Incorporatet it after the Franco-Prussian war.

[@theuncomfortabletruth3928]

Alan Sked, Istvan Deak, John Deak and others disagree, as I do. It was never an empire doomed to fail. Its collapse was not inevitable. It's only hindsight you are using to "prove" it was not viable.

[@mrgeometrydasher]

Why did that scratch appear at 4:18

[@adriancernea6034]

Because every empire finally collapses.

[@Faolan03]

10:25 alsace Lorraine was german at the time

[@funnykids4804]

very cool

[@Artur-bv2xx]

Dobrze że nie ma już tego tworu zwanego Austro-Węgry. Amen.

[@faenethlorhalien]

Because they lost a ware and were carved up. No surprises.

[@gabriel.ivan5795]

04.06.1920, Thanks God

[@janhejcman]

Finally was Czechia free! (Till the Münich betrayal 😭)

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@janhejcman]

@@Info_nexus01 how is it related to Czechs being free?

[@MEDVE1978]

Globally the tension, the emergence of national states the partitioning of Austria-Hungary were the primer interests of France. Consider French history: in the XIXth Century France was continuously beaten by Germany. Throughout the earlier centuries France almost always was hostile towards Austria or the Holy Roman Empire. Because of this France had numerous alliences with the Ottoman Empire, while the Turks were attacking the Habsbourgs. In WW1 France's nightmare came true: the Ottomans, Austrians and Germans all allied themselves and attacked French territory. So France's main diplomatic aim was to ensure none of the previous enemy empires stay intact and they all have one or more several thorns in their back. With the Ottoman Empire this meant the partition of the Ottomans territories (Lebanon, Syria, Algeria) and support of the Greeks in the Greco-Turkish war. With the Germans this meant the creation of Poland. With Austria-Hungary this meant the creation of new nation states and strenghtening the French ally Roumania. These countries became known as little Entente later, they were a constant threat to Hungary and Austria. Locally panslavism played a great role. This means that in Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia there was a great cultural revival in the early 1900s. The slavic habits, slavic mythoses, culture were adored and inserted in their national canons. The slavic people were oppressed, their culture was considered less worthy, first by the Austrians and German culture, then by the Hungarians after 1867. The situation in Gallicia and southern Poland was another. Those areas were mainly inhabited by Poles, Ukranians and Jews. After WW1 that area was contested: the Red Army, the Polish Army and the Ukranians all wanted to subdue those territories. The third case was with Transylvania and Roumania. The population was approximatly 40% Roumanians, 30% Hungarians, 30% Germans. However the Roumanians were very lucky and cautious during the XXth Century. Just quickly retrospectively: they didn't join WW1 until it seemed that the Brusilov offensive will be succesfull. After that they were beaten severely and occupied by the Central powers. But they didn't sign any peace treaties, trusting that the Entente will win. Which occured and the Roumanians reentered the war, attacking Austria-Hungary. After the war they immediatly attacked Transylvania and captured it because the Hungarian army was disintegrating and Hungary became a short time communist dictatorship. During WW2 the Germans gave parts of Transylvania back to Hungary (there was almost another Hungarian-Roumanian war). After supporting the Axis until 1944, the Roumanians switched sides and attacked. So they got Transylvania back again. Overall, it was not realistic to keep Austria-Hungary together, even as a federation. There were too many territories, each speaking another language. Even with Franz Ferdinand not assasinated and his solution of a 3 power center based empire (slavic countries, Austria, Hungary), the situation of for example the Croats (almost autonomous) and the Slovaks (no autonomy at all) was too different. People in Galicia, South Poland had no real interests to fight for such an empire. The Hungarian PM István Tisza knew that WW1 will be the death sentence of the Empire. Attacking and eventually conquering Serbia would have only brought another slavic nation to the Empire, which was even then unable to deal with the others already within its borders.

[@kirmanig9071]

Can you provide full tutorial of this editing?

[@nicholasschneider6655]

"Trust in Vienna had soared"?? Maybe "soured", given the context.

[@Vercixx]

Probably "sored" as in "sore throat"

[@Jalayir]

Happy Serb noises

[@cjthebeesknees]

Somebody really really really doesn’t want the various Balkan people’s united whatsoever.. monke stronger together, but fading from neglect.

[@yindao2830]

This is what the US and the west has to look forward to. Lessons of the past not grasped and learned from. Pure multiculturalism has an inevitable failing point. Well structured representation and a balance of residential stability are key ways to keep stability in regions. Importing new populations and increased movement of populations around the area of geographical control actually pushed the west backwards by its policies which encourage nomadicism. A way of life that is very tribalistiv and individualistic in that the people who move around, place to place, apartment to apartment do not participate in democratic systems and do not upkeep or improve their immediate surroundings. This can be found in voting records in the US. Those who have an investment and something to loose will fight to keep what they have and perhaps this is the point of the increase in immigration, to subdue the native populations and out compete them in order the those in power to keep it and gain power with those who are new with incentives, buying them off. The biggest mafia ever.

[@LJ_molano]

Why does your map look like a game i remember is it a game if what name

[@Enes-hk6tg]

Make video about Illyria please

[@jacrispy3973]

But what if Austria-Hungary was made of chocolate? Would it have collapsed then

[@spicynugget_0294]

I can tell you watched the WW1 film from epic history because you literally use the same sentences that the narrator said

[@janceski12]

they music u put on is the same as Kings and Generals chanal

[@BLACKBEARD1LL]

Next video how China become a superpower?

[@panzer8as]

whenever you mess with croats and serbs, you find yourself in such a mess without realizing how it even began, well..

[@Info_nexus01]

I've posted a video about indus Valley Civilization."'-

[@anthonyhargis6855]

I'm nearly seventy years old. I am an "American" and proud to be so, BUT . . . I cannot deny the numerous hypocritical actions my nation has taken throughout history. 🤷‍♂

[@maz6da]

This empire should have never fell apart. 😪

[@manwiththeredface7821]

The UK is on the same trajectory. Just watch.

[@thetruechaby]

Yeah, it could definitely happen.

[@libertas5005]

Who is UK gonna go to war with? Unless you're talking about civil war within the UK.

[@ZeusAmun-pt9dc]

Diversity was their strength

[@lucianpop3667]

Diversity was their weakness!...

[@midnightmadness6344]

They’re all white. Where’s the diversity?

[@skydubz7331]

the map is wrong. The German Empire had Alsace-Lorraine,not France

[@edmontans4488]

Austro-Hungria colapso más por los Factores externos que el de los Internos. Era la UE de los Balcanes de su momento.

[@98based30]

To scede from the empire was not the will of Hungarians. Károlyi was leading a social democratic dictatorship and he was installed trough a revolution a revolution what was orchestrated by freemasons of the Martinovich lodge.

[@Echowhiskeyone]

With the cultural differences, Austria and Hungary had two different gauge of railroads. Meaning you had to change trains when moving across the country.. Economic and political issues did not allow unifying toe rail systems to one gauge of rail.

[@pompolini3607]

Pls restore Austria-Hungary as Danubian Union❤❤😢

[@fehervari98]

The bias is palpable.

[@iceshcratiote3635]

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