DOMESTIC POLITICS,SOCIETY, AND CULTURE.
Augusto Perez
European societies went through rapid social economic, and political changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
#1 Britain led the way with Industrialization
#2 Followed by France , Germany Austria, and the Czech lands of the Habsburg monarchy.
#4 peasants move to the cities and took up work in the factories.
#5 workers also began to demand rights form political parties and CHALLENGE
the old political system.
#3 Italy and the Russian empire launched their industrialization drives in the last decades!!
#6 PRINCIPLES of democracy and electoral politics spread across the continent
Domestic Reforms Changing the Way International Politics Worked
- The French Revolution was the first attempt to challenge the principle of Autocratic Monarchy in 1789.
- There was a gradual of enfranchisement throughout the century prior 1914.
- Austria changed from monarchy to constitutional monarchy results of the revolutions during 1848.
- Revolution of 1905 : Russia forced tsar to accept elected national parliament.
- 1908 : Sultan was forced to cede power to "Young Turks" : Ottoman Empire.
- Foreign Ministers largely operated according to principles of Realpolitik ( realist foreign policy). This method lasted from 1815-1914.
Press Influence on "The Great War"
Yellow Journalism was founded by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst Press
Yellow journalism was a form of exaggerated news, in which people would exaggerate stories (in a sense of nationalism and sensationalism) to sell more newspapers (no facts.)
- Caused Imperial war in 1898 (Spanish-American war)
- Britain press hyped the idea of Germany dominating, convincing Britain to join the war (on the entente side.)
- Italy changed its side in the war, switching from central powers to entente, due to a hyped up story that portrayed Austria as more of a threat than France.
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