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Secret Rearmament
Secret Rearmament
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While the war was going in Austria-Hungary, the emperor and foreign minister went to London to discuss the British-Austrian alliance and relations.The Austrians Empire was falling and the threat of Bohemia joining the war on the Hungarian side is getting bigger every day
In the first day of their visit they discussed the British position on the war.The Austrians expected that he will support them and he will keep the peace on the continent.The king,however,had no intention of supporting them,even when he invited them to London.The Hungarians are winning,because no one from the non-Austrian provinces wants to fight.Most people think that they do not get enough power inside the Empire.The new emperor wants to create a federation(All parts will have a viceroy,similarly to the Croatian ban),but apart from the nobility,no one wants this.They want to rule themselves.Bohemia is a very big part of the empire.They are not a kingdom like Hungary or Croatia,but are very different from the Germans.
In the Balkans,most of the problems inside the cointrues were resolved.Many volunteers have joined the Hungarian army(About 20,000 from all countries)and every day tthere mor people joining.These soldiers formed the Balkan Divisions.They were united by their hate of the Austrians-This strengthened the soldiers' morale.The war is going for a few weeks,but there aren't many changes in the frontlines.
Many people helped the Balkan countries-mainly Hungarians and pan-Salvists,but many people agreed that the treaty was too harsh on the Balkan nations.The Austrians wanted to do this to keep their influence in the Balkans,but they lost it.
The new governments in the Balkans started the secret rearmament with weapons from Hungary,US and many other European countries.
Local production was promoted by the government,which helped the economy of Balkan nations to grow.Many of the things that are produced are used in other countries
The Ottoman lands in the Balkans have more Europeans than Ottomans.This,however,isn't a problem for the Ottomans to keep a big part of their army in there.Nazım Pasha-Turkish Chief of Staff of the military of the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan War has been replaced withbEnver Pasha,the minister of War and the reason for that was that Nazım Pasha lost almost all the battles in the war. The position of a coomander of troops stationed in the Balkans was given to Mehmed Esad Pasha.After fighting in the war and he wanted to punish them for the war.The Grand Vizier Said Halim Pasha and the Sultan reestablished the Jizya(is a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects—dhimmis—permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law),which was almost gone by the 20th century.This time,however,it is monthly tax.The people don't like this,but most of them aren't rebelling,because of fear.Sometimes Ottoman soldiers execute people in the towns,but they try to do it secretly from the other countries.
In Russia,nothing has changed,but the pan-slavist movement is becoming more popular in the Slavic parts of Austria-Hungary.There were many Marxist revolutionaries in Russia and many of them took part in the first revolution of 1905.The pan-slavists aren't Marxist and they don't want any revolutionaries.The pan-slavic party's ideology is social democracy,like the The Labour Group(Trudoviks)party,which wasn't one of the big parties anymore,as the leaders(Kerensky and Aladin) formed the pan-slavic party.
The Bohemian problem is growing,but they haven't joined the revolution yet.

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