Ten Minute History - The Austro-Hungarian Empire (Short Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2018
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This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth, rise, stagnation and swift fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Beginning with the 1848 Revolutions through the 1867 compromise this episode will take a look at the political and social issues the empire had. It covers the reign of Ferdinand, Franz Joseph and Karl I (Charles I) and how the empire launched the First World War which would ultimately be its downfall. The episode finishes by cover the treaties which were signed after the war and carved up the empire into the nations of eastern and central Europe.
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.
Recommended books:
A Concise History of Austria - Steven Beller. A fantastic book which covers all of Austrian History whilst pointing out the relevant parts of Hungarian history, too.
The Last Years of Austria-Hungary - Mark Cornwall.
Hungary: the landlocked kingdom without a king led by an admiral
We didn't have a king, because Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia threatened us that they will attack Hungary if they truly restore the monarchy
Horty "I don't know how to write his name" were like a regent to their nation.
@@deniszdrv4601 Actually,we HAD the chance to have a king,the trianon treaty made romanians and Czechslovakians unable to attack Hungary,it's just that we didn't have anyone,who could claim the crone
@@hunorfarkas6531 wow, I didn't know international treaties had the power to change laws of physics! I guess Molotov-Ribentropp pact was some sorta different kind of treaty then
@@512TheWolf512 You know what I was trying to say. And no,they wouldn't have attacked Hungary,they didn't have some world-changing army,like Germany had. French legion was also there to ensure nothing will happen
Students: "We want rights!" Austria:"I grant you the right to be shot."
America : "interesting..."
*COUGH* 1989 *COUGH*
Rights are granted by force, not whining.
Nothing happened on june 4th 1989
hmm nothing happend in 1989 and why is the Chinese government outside of my house?
"His career suffered a slight setback: He died"
Tis but a minor inconvenience!
Thud*
This was perfect timing
It seems I have found you in a comment section, again.
We shall meet again eventually dear Swedish man
@@malsypright Tis but a flesh wound!
I like how Franz Josef basically lasted this entire video.
Fun fact: Queen Elizabeth II has yet to rule for as long as he did (she will catch up to him next year though).
From some WWI video: "Franz Joseph proved he could actually die"
Then his career suffered a slight setback...
can you guess what happened?
also, what a catastrophe his rule was :)
yarpen26 it has been 14 days as of now since Elizabeth has reigned longer than him!
Why can’t political parties have cool names like “The Iron Ring” anymore?
History House Productions Because the ones that do are usually fascist crackpots. Golden Dawn being a decent example of a quality name decided on by people with shit ideas.
cfcdougiecfc1 That is indeed true. The old Black Hand group in Serbia is another example.
cfcdougiecfc1 to be fair, some communist and third world authoritarian crackpots also have cool names. It's mostly just when you have to run for Parliament in democracies that you settle for boring, descriptive names like "Green", "Liberal", "Labour" or "Christian-Democratic" parties. The democratic developing countries also have boring names like "National Congress" or "Democratic Labour Party". Meanwhile, "Fifth Republic Movement", "Patriotic Front" or "Democratic People's Republic" are baller names.
Monster Raving Loony party is a hilarious name for a party in the UK
Then you have the Know Nothings from the U.S (Yes I realize their official name was the American Party but nobody called them that) which is just silly
The Iron Ring sounds like a badass political party
Thefunmuffin or a giant space station
or a death metal band
And the Romanian one too: Iron Guard
Sounds more like a terrorist/anarchist organisation
@@Iason29 well these have badass names
Corrections:
1) Budapest was created in 1873, not 1878. Sorry about that.
2) Only South Tyrol was lost to Italy after World War 1.
i find it funny, the way you kill individuals off.
Austria gave Veneto to Prussia not to French.
*France
covoflyer I wonder if one of them one day will be a person dissolving into dust.
South Tyrol and Istria were both lost to Italy, however Italy lost most of Istria after world war 2 and today the region is divided among Italy, Croatia and Slovenia.
My Great-great grandmother was Croatian and she could speak Italian, Ruthenian, and Polish as well. She was from Trieste and I remember her showing me a "Maria-Teresa" coin when I was a boy. Of course she was a Croatian nationalist, but spoke fondly of living in the AHE and lamented the loss of "Her" empire. My grandmother, her daughter, my father's mother, returned immediately after WW2 to reappropriate some family property before the city was given over to Italian authorities, and showed me a photo album of B&W photos of when she was there.
So u saw your grandparents's grandparent wow. That is 5 generations living at a time
@@syedtahaahmed3208 it's actually possible if you have kids young. My kids love spending time their great grandfather (84).
If my kids have kids the same age as I did and then their kids had kids by the time I'm 70 I would be a great great grandfather, add another 20 years and it'll be great great great lol.
@@unoriginalhazard why?
@@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 why what
@@unoriginalhazard my grandparents were both 54 years old when I was born and my mom like 35
OverSimplified: Germany was totally rekked by the treaty of Versailles!
Austria - Hungary: Am I a joke to you?
can't really compare them
Austria hungary was an empire on three legs
British Guy that’s the flag of Bulgaria....
@@britishguy7031 When you cry over Austria-Hungary but cant tell the difference between the Hungarian and the Bulgarian flags
@@britishguy7031 Bruh 🇦🇹🇭🇺
5:05
“Ah yes, the universally known empire; Australia-Hungary”
69 likes don't ruin it
Hungry Australia
@@ooi97 Hungry australia, lol. this comment was gold. australia was hungry for hungarian booty.
@@chrislyons5556 Hungry Jack‘s
@@ooi97 lmao
3:12 “Austria lost Venice but gave it to France because they didn’t feel like Italy had earned it and France gave it to Italy”
Because as shown throughout Italy’s history, it can’t fight a war without being carried by their allies. Also, they wanted control of Italy and Italian nationalism was both a threat and a joke to the Habsburgs. At least France was an old, respectable foe even if hated. It was a silly move but it was definitely an insult to the Italians (plus France exchanged it with Italy for dropping Italian claims over Savoy and Nice).
@@gideonmele1556 Basically being a dick even when you lose --> fostering nationalism and hatred
If Austria didn’t treat Italy so badly I can assure you Italy wouldn’t have attacked it during WWI
@@gideonmele1556 not dropping claims, but giving the land
@@ventu7907 Austro-Hungarian - Italian relations were pretty terrible afterwards, it had nothing to do with that. The only reason that they made a semi alliance was because of Germany, and because it was believed that it would help them both, kind of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, mutual beneficence.
They didn't have to join the WW1 because the Triple Alliance was a defense pact, and this was an offensive war so they had every right and reason to remain neutral; and also because they had declared war in Serbia, and there was an agreement between the two that if they wanted to change stuff in the Balkans they would have to consult each other; and Austra-Hungary did not consult Italy and so they didn't have to support them anyway.
"List of people who are unemployed:
1: You"
Ain't that the truth?
"The empire was split into two."
That statement almost never leads to anything good...
Roma..
Byzant…
I have family that have lived this aspect of history. My great grandfather Paul Kipa lived in Poland and migrated from Poland to the United States during World War I when Poland was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The fact that the empire was split into two is the reason why my great grandfathers migration record just said "Poland, Austria" instead of 'Poland, Austria-Hungary'.
@@chrislyons5556 Austro-hungary empire wasn't mentioned on the official documents
"Russia will remember that" - LOL
That's from video game Batman: The Enemy Within
Slavic 96 it’s also from every other telltale game
I instantly thought about Life is Strange...
Why am I thinking about the battle of Stalingrad
The Austro-Hungarian empire would only make maters worse if they joined, because the Italians alone would defeat them.
"Sire! The peasants are revolting!" "Yes. And they smell bad too!"
*name a more iconic duo I’ll wait*
Kaiser welhilm
Franz joseph
The ottoman guy that noone cares about
Yousef Wahed that’s a trio
Ash Ketchum how about vader and palpatine
Yousef Wahed hitler and Mussolini
Ash Ketchum Mussolini and incompetence
Took the time to kick the bucket, lol.
*opportun
THUD
indeed
The death effects are so funny, especially with the sign that said *thud*
*thud*
To make matters more complicated, Franz-Joseph took this opportune moment, to kick the bucket....Now that really made my day.
“Friends?”
“Im old now”
"Trouble occurred when a crowd, mostly made up of students, demanded more rights and the government obliged...by shooting them.."
This is why I keep coming back
Kent State
Communist China: "Amateurs"
@@Kira-no666 fake news
@@littledovecitydust fake account
Commie swine got what they had coming to them. They got too few imo.
Considering its confusing political system and total lack of strategic foresight it is a miracle the empire lasted as long as it did and even had a cultural and scientific bloom before it fell apart.
I feel like Austria Hungary got the worse end of the loss than Germany.
in terms of territory loss, yes, but not in terms of reparations
Not really, they "just" lost lots of land. Germany was totaly economicaly destroyed while some parts of A-H like Austria or Czechoslovakia became quite rich
Ummm
You really can't compare Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Germany despite loosing some territories and a regime change still remained Germany.
While Austria-Hungary completely ceased to exit, and what has been left were 2 unstable and small countries of Hungary and Austria.
@@kostam.1113 The country of Austria was even forced by the allies. The Austrians themselves wanted the new state to be named Noric Republic to sound more like a new country (which it actually was), but the allies needed an Austria in order the get reparations and territory from it, so they forced the name on the German speaking part of old Austria. The Austrians then wanted to name their country German-Austria to show that they are just the German speaking part of old austria, because there was also the Czechoslovak-Austria, etc. The allies forbid it again because they wanted only one Austria.
Moe Greene Well,Germany had colonies,they lost about 3 million square kilometers of territory compare 600-650.000 square kilometers for destruction of Austria-Hungary.
Dude, one of the main reasons I love this channel and it’s content is the narrators sarcasm in regards to death murders etc. Perfect example ”His career suffered a slight setback when he died”. I get a little laugh every time I hear one of those stupid one liners. Great writing, in my opinion.
The accent supports it well too.
Franz Joseph had a serve case of kicking the bucket is a famous way of saying he died, and I like it
Why did Germany give Austria a blank Czech?
So, they wouldn't go Hungary
This comment is criminally unappreciated
Oh you son of a bitch LOL
They should have instead swallowed up Turkey with _a side_ of Greece!!
@@Perririri Excellent one!
@@Perririri That would have been Frenchly a Swiss thing.
I really enjoyed the video, but I would like to add a few corrections:
- In the Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian independence was only declared on 14. April 1849, not in 1848.
- The 1868 Hungarian nationality law was considered very liberal at the time it was created. However, it became outdated by the end of the 19th century.
- Budapest was unified in 1873, not in 1878.
- There are considerable Hungarian minorities also in modern day Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia and Slovenia, not only in Transylvania.
Apart from that, I think this video is a good summary.
There is Hungarian minority in Slovenia too. But dont worry he forgotten to mention Slovenians in video too.
In Romania magyars remains in same number after 100 years but in Hungary Romanians is half. Hungary destroyed Romanians minority with the assimilation policy.
"same" yeah after trianon it was 31% and at the beginning of 21th century it was around 20% so yeah very the "same" number....
@@knaffir9962 1,5 milion in 1918 and now around 1,5 million people. The problem is Romanians who was decimated in 100 years.
@Rajmund Csombordi Romanians lives in Hungary from 900 y. You are stupid or illiterate, go to school and study. Your level of knowledge is so low, this explains whay you build a fences around your borders.
Pretty nuts to think that during that whole time Austria only went through 3 monarchs and the first and last guy barely counted.
Ferdinand I gets slated as being an imbecile but in writings of those who knew him at the imperial court he was known to have had a sharp mind and was fond of Bohemia/Czechia. Unfortunately he was epileptic and had a dozen seizures a day, so he wasn't really capable of ruling much of anything. After he abdicated he retired to live in Prague castle and the Czechs still call him Ferdinand the Good.
Karl I was pretty much screwed, he tried to negotiate a secret peace with France in 1917 to try and preserve the empire and offering France anything it wanted. All it did was make France realize that if Austria-Hungary was that desperate they were on the ropes and wouldn't last much longer anyway. And they were right. Karl I took the throne far too late to affect any real changes, which is a shame since he'd actually served in the army during the war and knew how awful things were. he was also willing to grant the slavic peoples equal rights to the Austrians and Hungarians but by then that wasn't enough, they wanted out
Why is that "nuts"? Great Britain for example also had only three monarchs (Victoria, Edward VII and George V) during this period. In addition, only Austria-Hungary had three monarchs, Austria itself had many in its history.
Me: I’m hungry...
Austria: Wanna make a dual monarchy?
Hahhaha its really boring you know
It’s not a monarchy any more then?
You are hungry for a kick in the face you antisemitic shit
@@gggggggggggggggggg161 lmao why are u even triggered?
@@bosnianantediluvian4067 Umm, Emperor, Israel only attack the Palestinians when the Palestinians attack them.
5:06 - Australia-Hungary :D
Dafuck ?
It says Austria....
Guys, there's an Australian in the background and the flag has changed. You didn't notice?
If only Franz Joseph had emus, the Russians and Serbians wouldn't have known what hit them.
I blame Conrad von Hotzendorf
He was a good general.
We all blame Von Hotzendorf
Man had a great stache tho
He was only good as a mannequin for Hotzensocks!
Star dust I don’t see how you can say that when he launched THREE failed winter assaults in the Carpathians in the same spot and with the same demoralized and undersupplied troops every time. And then he somehow managed to get into a stalemate with the guy who was arguably the most incompetent person in the entire war, Luigi Cadorna. He was NOT a good general.
hemmingwayfan good man💪 he was an idiot and traitor
The passive resistence of the Hungarian nobility is absolutely missed out.
Maybe because it wasn't as significant as the Hungarians like to think.
@@szarvaskoppanyIt kind of paralised the Austro-Hungarian Empire during it's whole existence, so I wouldn't call it insignificant.
@@alm9322 It didn't. The paralisation firce was overplayed by writers writing afterwards, trying to justify their positions after the deal.
With all the mentions of moments that "threatened to tear the empire apart", it's actually a miracle that it stayed together for as long as it did
Who says that?: “You haven’t earned this province coz you didn’t fight well enough”😂😂
Austria
But Prussia made herself a treaty whit France for giving Venice to Italy because Prussia said to italy in a treaty that the war sill not be over until Venice was given to Italy
Love the Australia-Hungarian flag in the background at 5:09
Lmao the board said: "People who are unemployed: You." 6:14 lmao
"The Austrians were defeated because they hadn't adapted to the new technologies and because the Italians had joined the Prussians."
Well that and the Prussian forces were being led by Helmuth von Moltke, one of the most brilliant military commanders of his time.
and the Prussians having a larger railway system with which they could transport troops to the battlefield quickly
The technology gap during the Austro-Hungarian Prussian war was extreme though and the only modern war in history where one side had a massive technological advantage. Prussia had the Dreyse Needle Rifle, a rapid firing, breech loading, paper cartridge rifle. Austria-Hungary were still using muzzle loaders...
@@planescaped Well, the only modern war between major nations with a large technological gap between the two sides.
and two-front war, also the prussians had better fire-arms but the austrians better artillery and small arms kind of decided the fight
The German army was probably a little bit more streamlined than the AH army as well. To do well as an officer in the German army you should, of course, speak German. Preferably with a East Prussian accent for extra oomph if you had serious career ambitions. To do well in the AH army you should be able to give orders in German, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Ruthenian, Slovenian, Croatian, Romanian, Italian etc.
5:03 An Australian in Austria? Unthinkable!
1867-1918
0:01 March 13 1848 Vienna: govt shoots protestors
0:20 wanted to form states along ethnic lines ; very ethnically diverse empire
1:20 June 1849 Austria invades Hungary (which had declared itself independent)
1:25 by 1852 the central govt of Vienna had a firm grip over territory ; Franz Joseph absolute ruler
1:45 Austria indebted to Russia for helping put down the Hungarian revolt; but when Russia asked for help in Crimean War, but Austria refused, souring relations when Russia lost
1:59 in 1859 the Austrians are goaded into war with Piedmont-Sardegna, who France quickly comes to aid; Austria loses, ceding its wealthies province, Lombardy, to Piedmont-Sardegna
2:18 House of Deputies House of Lords ; nobody happy
3:00 1866 Austria lost in part because Italians joined Prussians
3:12 Austria lost Venice but gave it to France because felt Italians hadn't earned it (what does that mean??) before France gave it to them anyway
3:30 formation of Austro-Hungarian Empire; supposed to have separate rulers but share some foreign affairs ;
4:35 1878 Balkan Ottomans defeated by Russia; Austria-Hungary occupies; further sours relations with Russia
5:10 Empire goes more Slavic; Germany doesn't like
5:25 Taaffe's Reforms ; eventually ousted ; minority struggles
6:15 Hungarians wants army to speak Hungarian not German
6:40 didn't participate in scramble for Africa or try for global empire since lacked Navy to protect it
6:55 the only ally left was Germany
7:20 assassination of Franz Ferdinand
8:10 minority ethnicities still want representation or independence
People who are unemployed: You
ima make a meme outa that
ima make a meme outa that
ima make a meme outa that
You are the meme out of that
Grandpa: *wakes up from coma*
Grandson: hey, wanna watch a football match?
Grandpa: sure, which teams are playing?
Grandson: Austria and Hungary
Grandpa: and what is the other country?
It is just amazing how these simple, two dimensional, blocky characters resemble the actual people they represent!
Great video, trying to cram Austia-Hungary in 10 minutes is a daunting task. :D Also, thank you for doing videos about less well known entities. It feels like time is forgetting the Ottoman and Habsburg domains and their effects on the world.
@Абдульзефир you sound hateful and totally inaccurate.
@Абдульзефир yep, daughter, you do
In Hungary this period takes up a LOT of history class XD Especially the revolution.
Your maps are your bread and butter. Keep up the good work
List of people who are unemployed:
1. You
The
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏
Bravo
*Complete success, I see no issues here, carry on.*
What happened to the people who had the people
The James Tang Seal of Approval
Another great video. Sometimes short videos are the best way to learn new information regarding history.
I highly recommend Extra Credits: The Seminal Tragedy series for an interesting view on the build up to WW1. It is actually shocking how many attempts to avoid The Great War simply failed. One wrong turn, One diplomat dead by heart attack, and one king could not be found at all because... well, vacation. It really has all the workings of a great tragic play and is well presented by Extra Credits.
Can be found on youtube easily.
EC is one of my favourite channels
One of my close friends is half Hungarian, and his great-grandparents lived in Hungary when it was defeated and partitioned. The lived in a village that ended up being only a couple of kilometres outside of the new, smaller Hungary, and for the rest of their lives they were treated absolutely terribly by their new countrymen solely for being Hungarian. My friend still feels genuine anger at how Hungary was partitioned and even to this day wants Hungary to reclaim its lost lands.
Big comfort to them after being discriminated against and bullied because they happened to live in a country they had no choice of.
+The Romanian Atheist In these days, empires will never form again. Nobody can declare wars just to get the biggest name on the map anymore without causing WWIII.
Who said they discriminated against others?
I as an Austrian feels the same towards south tyrol. The people there are predominately Austrian and they all speak german. It should be part of Austria or at the very least become independent.
The Italians can keep Trentino, it's Italian and i respect that. Even Franz Josef said : "They can keep the Italian provinces, but they won't get one inch of german soil!"
“Took this opportune moment to kick the bucket”
In case anyone is interested the full name of Austria-Hungary is The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen.
02:00 a telltale games easter egg. Just 4 months before telltale games shut down.
I have family that have lived this aspect of history. My great grandfather Paul Kipa lived in Poland and migrated from Poland to the United States during World War I when Poland was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
'Russia will remember that' XD
That's from Batman: The Enemy Within
WWI
Im brazilian and I recently discovered that my Italian heritage has a huge hungarian percentage.
Don't you wish to know more about your parent's from like 1000 years ago...?
I mean... just for curiosity, genetics can say something interesting.
Also for respect, of course, these people survived some hard times for us to be here.
Gratitude is the least we could have.
Cheers for my italian/hungarian blood brothers and sisters.
^^)
Maybe he was fighting the turks or something
Genetically your ancestors 1000 years ago are likely to be all Europeans, if not humans, who lived at that time.
You can make a DNA-test nowadays that reveals the countries of your ancestors. : )
The Austro-Prussian war was mainly about who would unify the german nations. Prussia won in the battle of Hradec Kralove, so it unified Germans and created the German empire.
Wasn’t it the north German federation? If I recall correctly the German empire formed after the Franco Prussian war
Me : Grandpa the soccer game is on!
Grandpa: Who’s playing?
Me : Austria-Hungary
Grandpa : playing whom?
1:44 I saw that coming. You get used to these "setbacks."
There's a mistake you also made in another video, the Austria-Hungarian Navy was by 1914 the 6th biggest in the world and far from being weak. That was also the reason why the Empire was no target for a British naval Invasion in WW1 like Gallipoli.
Alpha3488 - I believe Austria still has a navy today, although it is strictly a riverine navy (one that operates on the Austria rivers and lakes since Austria is currently land-locked). I visited Austria in 1991 and spoke to a local who had served in their navy. He described it as cruising up and down the Donau (the German name of the Danube).
Yeah but it was a Mediterranean power, not a global one, plus Britain (the largest navy) controlled the exits to the med
@@polkka7797 Still a force to be recognized, especially in the Adriatic. Plus Italy had Colonies as a mediteranean country, so the royal navy didn't prevent that before 1914.
Before watching the video: the Austro-Hungarian Empire looks cursed
After watching the video: OK, it was even more cursed than I thought
5:50 wow he seems to be a good fellow
I wonder what affect on history he has
History matter : to over simplified
Oversimplified: are you challenging me
"His career suffered a setback when he died" LOL Love these videos
"So *inset any noun/name here" Obliged: by shooting them" is my new favorite phrase
Always wanted this covered, great job!
Many many others obviously means Slovenes!
Fantastic Episode!
Welcome back, I was wondering where this channel had gone!
👏 I wasn't sure you could really do this in just 10 minutes, but my hats off, sir!
Love this channel! I turned my 32 year old son who has never been a history fan onto it and he's hooked.
9:59 props to this guy for making all of these videos ten minutes.
A big event that you didn't mention was the death of the Empress Elisabeth in 1898. She was one of the people that helped keep relations between the Emperor and the people.
I absolutely love your videos. I am confident I have seen everyone of your videos at least 4 times. Hope this question doesn't bother you but just wondering, what software/plataform do you use to create your animations and content?
Imagine if all the ethnicities of the emperors were given equal treatment as the Hungarians.
Then the country would be called the Austrian-Hungarian-Polish Czech-Slovakian-Ukrainian-Serbs-Croats and Slovenes Empire
Or just give it the name "Danubian Monarchy/Empire/Confederation"
So the AHPCSUSCS?
Forgot Romanians.
You are so awesome. I could watch these videos for days on end
Woooot, so pleased whenever your videos pop up!
"Russia will remember that." Haha nice Telltale The Walking Dead reference there.
Top 10 pranks that went too far
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I'm gavrilo prhicip and this is jackass
Excellent chapter, thanks for sharing
Your animations are great keep it up!
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Fun fact: Franz Josef was the only Emperor who died while having an empire, while the Kaiser and Sultan didn't after WW1
I love your videos, the only thing I would suggest is additing some kind of year-counter, from which we would be able to easly know what time the actions took place
"Took this opportune moment to kick the bucket" had me immediately. Had to rewind and laugh at that phrase twice
Yooo what's up with the aussie cork hat at 5:03?
I love it.
Technically Austria-Hungary had already been carved up before the war even ended. In late October 1918, the climactic battle of the war for Austria started at Vittorio Veneto in northern Italy. As the battle progressed, it became clear to everyone that Austria was losing, and most of the empire began declaring independence before the battle was even over. By October 31, all Emperor Karl ruled was basically what's now Austria- the rest was gone. Even Hungary declared independence and ended the personal union.
Vittorio Veneto ended with a crushing defeat for Austria, and the Austrian military largely ceased to exist, so the emperor "abdicated" (he fired his entire government and declared he was going to stop personally running the government- but everyone just kind of accepted his statement as an abdication, which he spent the rest of his life denying), and Austria surrendered. The treaties of Trianon and Saint-Germain simply codified and recognized the independence of the new countries.
Also, there was a war in 1864 that set up the 1866 war. Long story very short, in the 1850s Prussia fought a war over Schleswig and Holstein, two duchies that make up that "neck" region between Denmark and Germany. They were controlled by Denmark but the people there are basically Germans. The first war ended in basically a draw because Prussia couldn't defeat them fast enough and was worried that England would get involved. So then in 1864, when the king of Denmark died and the new king basically tried to absorb the duchies, Prussia convinced Austria to help stop them. Denmark didn't really stand a chance against the two much larger and more powerful countries, so they were defeated in about 9 months. The victors divided up the two duchies between themselves, and less than two years later Prussia claimed that Austria broke the 1864 peace treaty and used that as a reason to start the 1866 Austro-Prussian War described herein.
Germany: nah send it I have your back
Germany after: I regret this decision
Really great to see this covered
You forgot to mention that in 1848 not just Austrians fought against Hungarians, but the other minorities rebelled and started killing Hungarians all over the empire like Slovaks in upper Hungary, Romanians in Transylvania and Serbs in Vojvodina. The aftermath of this was the Szekler counterattack against Romanian in Szeklerland. Also Hungarians didn't lose the revolution to Austria but to Russia. It was a bloody war for freedom. But by the way, great video. Keep it up, it's not easy to make such animations and documentate about a country's history.
Pataki Szilveszter no thle Hungarians betrayed the monarchy that theyn serve for 3 hundred years
Hungarians were subjugated by the Habsburgs for 300 years*
sithersproductions we Hungarians were forced under an union with Austria in the 1500s when the Ottomans also occupied a big part of the country, so saying that we betrayed Austria is as absurd as saying that India betrayed Britain or Greece betraying the Ottomans
Pataki Szilveszter Thank you for mentioning this, too often people forget or miss things like this so important to understanding the context in which everything took place.
No problem my Romanian friend :D
I am very much looking forward to my Austria-Hungary T-shirt arriving any day now😁
"Took this opportune moment to kick the bucket."
Like a boss.
Sought to improve relations with Russia that went went terribly.” That carriage ride back musta been long quiet and COLD bruh.
"It included many ethnic groups [....] and many many more", but the map only left out Slovenes, lel. It never gets not funny.
"Russia will remember that"
That reminds me of telltale games, especially mc story mode as its the only one i played.
You are finally back 😁, welcome back.
I love this channel!
9:08 he was probably just out of work being an admiral in a landlocked country lol
I'd love to hear the histories of South American countries. By the way great video !
Love this channel
Yeah finally a new video,
When are you planning to continue your England series?
You could have also included the assassination of Empress Elizabeth just to add to show how tragic Franz Josef’s life was (sorta) 😂 Another great vid tho!