From Ottoman to Habsburg Rule 1699
1703-11 Hungarian Revolt under Rakocszi
Maria Theresa 1740-80
Enlightened Absolutism
Joseph II 1780-90
Napoleon stirs up the continent
Austrian Empire 1804
Build up to Revolution
Revolution 1848-49 under Kossuth
Austrian repression repulses the Russians!
Francis Joseph 1848-1916: Introduction to next week
Course available at JW3 or by zoom at home
Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where
Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M
Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt