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The End of the old Monarchy
The end of the old monarchy
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In 1910 Franz Josef told Theodore Roosevelt "You see in me the last Europeanmonarch of the old school".And the people liked him because of that.At first only the Austrians liked him ,because the Hungarians wanted power in the empire
,but after the Compomise(or the Ausgleich) the Magyars were given power to make their own rules and they had their own parliament and then most of theMagyarsy are started to like him too.However,they still had one monarch and common ministries for war,foreign affairs and finance.And a lot of people weren't happy with that-they want full independence.The National party of Work won the 1910 elections.The NPW is a national liberal party whose aims is to liberate the Hungarian Kingdom from the Austrians.Seeing the aftermath of the Austro-hungarian- Balkan League war,he decided to use the crisis in the Balkans to his advantage.The people in the Balkans hated the Austrians and Franz Josef more than anything.New parties were established-parties for national liberation.
The Bulgarian Party for National Liberation is led by Atanas Burov,as he was the only politician who fought in the First Balkan War voluntarily.All people want to liberate the lands controlled by the Ottomans,but some want it more than others.The party gained massive support from the people.A big problem for the Otomans was that the lands that the Balkan League wanted were populated by Christians.The Ottomans started persecuting Christians, which was just one more reason for the rise of such Parties.
The Serbian Nationalist party ,led by Milenko Vesnić,he was one of the delegates in the treaty of Belgrade and it is more focused against Austria-Hungary rather than the Ottoman Empire.
Vesnić spent his life in Rome and Paris as a minister.He is praised for his book,,The Balkan League thorough and after the Balkan war"It explains the plan made by the Balkan League to distract the Ottoman army from Thrace ,how the Balkan League was formed and the battles between the Balkan League and the Ottomans.After that he talks about the Austrian intervention and the battle of Belgrade.The other is for the Balkan League after the war.He talks about the treaties,the economic crisis and the disarmament.It has been translated in many languages except German(in Austria) And Turkish,because it insults Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empire
The party for national liberation (The Liberal party)was established before the war in 1910 and is led by the prime minister of Greece Eleftherios Venizelos.He initiated constitutional and economic reforms that set the basis for the modernization of Greek society and also reorganized both army and navy in preparation of future conflicts.This helped the Greek army in the Balkan war.They used weapons produced in France.Now,after they,as everyone else, wanted to regain their lands.He had to reform the economy using foreign investment from other countries of the Balkan league,which led to an end of the crisis in Greece faster than in any of the other Balkan nations.
Venizelos is known for his democratic policies,which the monarchs did not like,but the new king didn't do anything to lower his power as he helped the Greek nation recover from the economic crisis
László Lukács started secretly sending weapons to the armies of the Balkan League and contacted the leaders of the parties to talk about the assassination of Franz Josef,Emperor of Austria-Hungary.The people in the Balkans started murdering people of Turkish and German origin and basically eliminated the turkish population in the Balkan League.
The leader of the assassination is Dragutin Dimitrijević,a Serbian Nationalist and colonel.He was part of the attempt to assassinate the emperor in 1911 and he was ready to try again.Many Serbian anti-austrian groups have since the loss of the Balkan war.One of these groups is the Force of Salvation.
The emperor is going to visit Budapest early next year and that was the plan-Trifun "Trifko" Grabež was going to wait in Budapest with the help of the NPW and the other parties and when the emperor comes he is going to shoot him.
Meanwhile,revolutionaries from Turkish lands formed the Macedonian-Thracian organisation aiming to free the lands from ottoman rule.The countries from the Balkans gave them weapons and money so that the organisation can undermine the morale of the Turkish population.
The time soon came and the emperor arrived on the 24th February 1914.The organizers of the assassination told Grabež to use cyanide and kill himself to avoid captivity.
Grabež walked into Vaci street where the emperor was riding in the popular automobile 28/32 PS
Grabež fired with the Rast & Gasser Model 1898.This shot will change the History of the world and Europe.
End of Part I

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