In 1914 a brazen plot to assasinate the Arduke Franz Ferdinand on his visit to Sarajevo was foiled by the ineptitude of the plotters and the brave actions of a Sarajevo police detective who shot and killed would be assassin Gavrilo Princip on July 14.
This action prompted the a crackdown on the Black Hand terrorist within both Austro-Hungary and Servia. This led to the more normalizing of relations between the small kingdom and the large empire.
Unfortunately, even though this event did not precipitate war in Europe, other events did. In September of 1914 Italy broke out of the Central Powers and invaded Dalmatia, prompting the Austro-Italian War which which lasted until the fall of 1917 in Status Quo Antebellum and Italian recognition of the Austro-Hungarian domination of Dalmatia.
Germany was unable to participate in this war because of thee nearly simultaneous uprising in German Southwest Africa, German East Africa, and closer to home Polish uprisings in East Prussia. The uprising in Africa were put in down in an efficient and brutal manner, but the chasing of Polish seperatists into Russian territory led to war between Germany and Russia in October of 1914 and this conflict would last until the fall of 1916 with Polish independence crushed and social conflict and uprisings with Russia herself. Also Germany now found herself with large expanses of fromerly Russian Polish territory.
As pertaining to their alliance with Russia, France declared war on Germany. Because of the large numbers of troops already being used in the east, Germany took to the defensive in the west. The French made little gains during the war and sued for peace when Russia did the same.
And thus by 1917 an uneasy international peace reigned thourought Europe, and any potential global conflagaration was ultimately prevented.
But this did not prevent conflict from happening in Europe for in 1919 Servia invaded and then annexed Montenegro. Kaiser Karl I responded by setting up the Kingdom of Albania which he gave it full support.
The Balkans did not experience much peace following the turbulent decade of the teens for war was the norm. The twenties saw several wars amougst the nations of the Balkans including the devestating Austro-Rumanian War of 1921 - 1925 which led to the annexation of Rumania.
During the rest of the century Austria-Hungary remained relatively peaceful except for the Albanian War from 1947 - 1954 which was prompted by the attempted Italian annexation of Albania and resulted in the loss of Italy's colonial empire to Austria-Hungary.
Aside from minor colonial uprisings in Africa and the peaceful restablishment of the independent Kingdom of Rumania in 1985 the Austro-Hungarian Empire remained peaceful and productive and more and more unitarian following the political, economic, and military reforms of at first Kaiser Karl I and then Kaiser Otto I who was a major player in the signing of the International Powers League (IPL).
In the late 1990's the ethnic Albanians Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was a terrorist group operating as terrorists against Servia for the establishment of either an independent Kosovo or the unification of Kosovo with Albania. Following a spat of violence and death the Servian army entered Albania in order to destory KLA base camps on October 7, 2009.
Immediatly the Austro-Hungarian government issued an ultimatum to Servia demanding a withdrawal of all Servian forces from the region within 15 days.
When Servia failed to respond to these demands Austria-Hungary declared War on Servia and on October 23 the first Imperial and Royal troops crossed into Servian territory...
This action prompted the a crackdown on the Black Hand terrorist within both Austro-Hungary and Servia. This led to the more normalizing of relations between the small kingdom and the large empire.
Unfortunately, even though this event did not precipitate war in Europe, other events did. In September of 1914 Italy broke out of the Central Powers and invaded Dalmatia, prompting the Austro-Italian War which which lasted until the fall of 1917 in Status Quo Antebellum and Italian recognition of the Austro-Hungarian domination of Dalmatia.
Germany was unable to participate in this war because of thee nearly simultaneous uprising in German Southwest Africa, German East Africa, and closer to home Polish uprisings in East Prussia. The uprising in Africa were put in down in an efficient and brutal manner, but the chasing of Polish seperatists into Russian territory led to war between Germany and Russia in October of 1914 and this conflict would last until the fall of 1916 with Polish independence crushed and social conflict and uprisings with Russia herself. Also Germany now found herself with large expanses of fromerly Russian Polish territory.
As pertaining to their alliance with Russia, France declared war on Germany. Because of the large numbers of troops already being used in the east, Germany took to the defensive in the west. The French made little gains during the war and sued for peace when Russia did the same.
And thus by 1917 an uneasy international peace reigned thourought Europe, and any potential global conflagaration was ultimately prevented.
But this did not prevent conflict from happening in Europe for in 1919 Servia invaded and then annexed Montenegro. Kaiser Karl I responded by setting up the Kingdom of Albania which he gave it full support.
The Balkans did not experience much peace following the turbulent decade of the teens for war was the norm. The twenties saw several wars amougst the nations of the Balkans including the devestating Austro-Rumanian War of 1921 - 1925 which led to the annexation of Rumania.
During the rest of the century Austria-Hungary remained relatively peaceful except for the Albanian War from 1947 - 1954 which was prompted by the attempted Italian annexation of Albania and resulted in the loss of Italy's colonial empire to Austria-Hungary.
Aside from minor colonial uprisings in Africa and the peaceful restablishment of the independent Kingdom of Rumania in 1985 the Austro-Hungarian Empire remained peaceful and productive and more and more unitarian following the political, economic, and military reforms of at first Kaiser Karl I and then Kaiser Otto I who was a major player in the signing of the International Powers League (IPL).
In the late 1990's the ethnic Albanians Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was a terrorist group operating as terrorists against Servia for the establishment of either an independent Kosovo or the unification of Kosovo with Albania. Following a spat of violence and death the Servian army entered Albania in order to destory KLA base camps on October 7, 2009.
Immediatly the Austro-Hungarian government issued an ultimatum to Servia demanding a withdrawal of all Servian forces from the region within 15 days.
When Servia failed to respond to these demands Austria-Hungary declared War on Servia and on October 23 the first Imperial and Royal troops crossed into Servian territory...