I know the story is that a serbian nationalist who was involved in a pan-slav party shot the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but what is so confusing to me is that Wilhelm II was cousins i believe with both the Tsar Nicholus as well as related to the king of Britain. George something?
Is it not strange that these royal families would marry off like this and then declare war on each other? I thought when they married it was a way of consolidating power in other countries and empires?
So the pan slav movement they say was drummed up by Britain and the western powers to undermine the ottoman empire , are the major theories out there, and Austria and Germany were fighting to prevent them from taking over the trade route from Istanbul, but what is your explanation??
And as the bonus question: why were these monarchs who were related fighting each other?
2007-02-17
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