AustriaHungary and the kingdom of Serbia. Bismarck had predicted that the next major European war would be ignited by "some damn foolish thing in the Balkans."2Since 1914, historians have disagreed as to the degree of complicity of the Serbian and Russian governments in the plot to assassi...
Austria-Hungary, the Hapsburg empire from 1867 until its collapse in 1918. The result of a constitutional compromise (Ausgleich) between Emperor Franz Joseph and Hungary (then part of the empire), it consisted of diverse dynastic possessions and an inter
The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, ...