#7: 29-30 June - Vienna Chooses Violence

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

19th Century, 20th Century, International Relations, Politics, Thirty Years' War, Korean War, 18th Century, First World War, Phd, 17th Century, European History, History, War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

With the shots heard round the world, how would Austro-Hungarian statesmen react to the news that the heir to their throne had been murdered in Sarajevo? In fact, as we see here, Austrian patience towards Serbia had been so exhausted by 1914 that a violent, warlike response was virtually inevitable. At least, Habsburg Foreign Minister Count Berchtold thought so. But what about the Hungarian element in the room?

Since the Compomise of 1867, Austria and Hungary had essentially become two cooperating entities, rather than an Austrian whole, so Hungarian approval from the Hungarian Premier would be necessary if any military policy was pursued. Berchtold would have to use all his skills of persuasion, but he would also call upon Emperor Franz Josef, and above all the Germans, to add greater pressure. Could he succeed? Austria's existence, Berchtold believed, hung in the balance.

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0:42.0	In summer 1914, the world went to war.
0:47.0	Now 110 years later, we go back to those figures, to those debates, to those questions,
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1:14.6	. The tragedy which has just taken place in Sarajevo will not, I trust, lead to further complications.
1:48.4	Sir Arthur Nicholson, 30th of June, 1914.
1:59.3	The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo proved to be the final act in a series of crises which the concert of Europe ultimately failed to overcome.
2:10.3	We might be tempted to view what followed as a single-minded quest for justice on Vienna's part, or as the long-awaited legitimising factor in Austria's attempt to
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