Austria-Hungary

Austria didn't have a President in 1914. It was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was ruled by an Emperor. In 1914, the Emperor was Franz Josef; he died two years later and was succeeded by his great nephew Karl I.

The Austrian Empire reclaimed Hungary from the OTTOMAN EMPIRE, which occupied the region for roughly 200 years.

Austria-Hungary was more or less the achievement of a familly (The Hapsburgs) rather than of a conquering nation. They have brought togather a huge land in which many different nations lived (Hungarians, Czechs, Germans, Slovenes...) at a time when nationality seemed irrelevant. The peoples of the Empire lived seperatly in rather autonomous kingdoms, duchies etc.

The tensions began when the absolute emperors sought to relinquish the autonomies of the provinces in favour of a centralized government which started to promote the German language by which threatening the other nations of the empire which formed an overwhelming majority.

With the spread of German nationalism other concurring nationalisms began to take hold. As opposition to Germanisation grew strongerthe Germans decided to share power with the second largest nation, the Hungarians.

Then both sides, the Austrian and the Hungarian in their respective parts, tried to build a unitary state through assimilating the other nations they had ruled over out of that multinational feud of the Hapsburgs. This was met with fierce resistance from all the other communities most notably the Czechs and South Slavs who demanded equal rights for their languages and autonomy within their historic territories. This brought few results.

And when the government in Vienna forced the country into a futile war nobody but the Germans would have benefited from, those oppressed nations and their leaders decided to leave the empire for good and follow the path to independence.

It lost the World War 1 because on its place appeared the new independent states.

Following the reclassification of the Austrian Empire as Austria-Hungary in 1867, Austria Hungary had only to Emperors, Franz Josef I (1848-1916) and Karl I (1916-1918).

Yes, Austria and Hungary shared the same monarch from 1867 until the end of World War I in 1918. This arrangement was part of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, which established a dual monarchy, allowing both regions to maintain separate governments while being united under a single emperor. Franz Joseph I was one of the most notable monarchs during this period. Despite their shared monarchy, Austria and Hungary had distinct political and administrative systems.

Pretty much every group in the Austro-Hungarian Empire other than Austrian Germans or Hungarians wanted to break away including: Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Rusyns/Ruthenians, Romanians, Ukrainians, Croats, Slovenes, Bosniaks, and Italians.

Italy was allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary when World War I started. Italy said that since Austria-Hungary started the war by declaring war on Serbia, and the alliance was a defensive pact (ie if one country is attacked, the others would help), they were under no obligation to join the war.

At that point in history, Italians had a long-standing dislike of Austria. Austria had once ruled most of northern Italy, and resisted efforts for Italy to unify (until the mid-1800's, Italy was broken up into many smaller countries); when World War I started, Austria still ruled some Italian cities ("Italia Irridentia", or "unredeemed Italy"). They even fought a war against each other in the 1860's while Austria was fighting Prussia. So it's not surprising that Italy didn't have much desire to help Austria fight her war against Serbia.

Control over serbians

Had there not been alliances, no one would have stepped in to defend Serbia and negotiations would have continued. But, Russia stepped in and prevented that. It also made the mistake of provoking Germany, who would have stayed out of the conflict, and joining Austria.

Russia.

Serbia will be defended by Russia. If Russia mobilises, this brings the German warplan into play, and they must mobilise too. Since the German plan assumes beating France before fighting Russia, the assumption of Russian mobilisation brings France into the war; and since France and Great Britain are linked by an Entente this makes the conflict a global World War.

The Triple Alliance (1882) included all three countries. Italy, regarding their "common defense" pact not to apply due to Austrian aggression, did not join Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (1914), and actually fought against Austria later in the war.

how did austria / hungary change from 1913 to 1919

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Currently the empire of Austria Hungary no longer exists, after the first world war it was divided up into Austria and Hungary.

The current president of Austria is Heinz Fischer who has been in office since 2004.

The current president of Hungary is János Áder

who has been in office since May 2012.

Maria Theresa was Archduchess of Austria, the first and only female ruler of Austria for the 650 years of Austrian history. She was the daughter of Charles II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose only son died in 1716 when he was just a baby. Maria Theresa, being a woman, could not succeed to the imperial throne of the Holy Roman Empire, but she succeeded to the royal thrones of Croatia, Dalmatia and Bohemia. She eventually became Holy Roman Empress, when she married Francis I, her father's succesor. She was the de facto ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. Francis I and Maria Theresa had 16 children - their 15th child and youngest daughter was the famous Marie Antoinette.

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because Austria-Hungary was becoming a world power

Depends on where you are. If you are in China, it's quite a way. If you're in Portugal, it's right over the border. (I assume you mean geographically) 4250 miles if starting at Chicago. THE ROSES MAY BE RED, BUT VIOLETS ARE DEFINATLEY VIOLET, NOT BLUE!!! YOU KNOW THAT!

The rising nationalism in Serbia created conflict with Austria-Hungary who had annexed Bosnia & Herzegovina, both slavic speaking states. Serbia wanted to create a single unified slavic empire so they looked to the Russians for military support. This ultimately led to the decline of Austria-Hungary.

It was made up of people like the Germans & Czechs and Magyars and Sloaks,Romanians, Slovenes , Poles , Croats ,Serbians , and Italians.

A Bosnian man assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and some Serbians were implicated/involved in the murder plot. Bosnia was a part of Austria-Hungary and wanted to break away to either form their own nation or join Serbia to make a bigger nation.