Why did Austria-Hungary Collapse?

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Both my grandparents fought for Austria-Ungary and were very proud to be part of it even though not German speakers.

It's honestly really impressive that the Austrian Empire (and later Austria-Hungary) managed to stay unified without a major revolution between 1850 and 1914, despite the fact the country had 10+ minorities. Also the fact that Austria-Hungary managed to build the 2nd largest European railway, the 3rd largest oil production, the 4th largest machine-building industry and the 3rd manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances worldwide with its rapidly growing economy. The Ottomans meanwhile collapsed much quicker and had a far more backwards economy. The main reasons why Austria-Hungary collapsed was because of its military defeats in 1914-18, high inflation, and most notably, food. Many farmers producing food for the empire were needed for the war, the Russian invasion of Galicia destroyed food production, and the British naval blockade hurt the Central Powers a lot. By 1918 it was pretty much too late to reform the empire, but before WW1 or maybe even in the early WW1 stages it was still possible to reform it. Independence parties in the 1907 & 1911 Austrian elections all combined didn't even reach 1% of the votes and the other minorities of Austria-Hungary simply wanted more national autonomy, not independence until 1918. I believe people like Franz Ferdinand and Charles I could've reformed the empire if WW1 had been delayed.

Simply put it was a dynasty that lasted Hundreds of years, It only took one man to bring it down

Hungarians in Empire: We want independence ✊ Ethnic Groups in Hungary: We want independence too ✊✊✊ -Wait what? You can't do that.

After the Hungarian Revolutions of 1848 into the opening stages of the 1853 Crimean War, Austria-Hungary was facing its darkest hour as its prestige was greatly diminishing & experiencing such domestic turmoil across the board that it set up the plot towards WW1. Later, the wars with France & Prussia in the 19th century would make the empire barely a 2nd tier power in Europe behind Prussia/The German Empire and would become the dominant leading state for finalizing German unification amid decades of German Dualism. Militarily, Austria-Hungary depended on the Russians for aid during the centuries of war with France, who were the major rivals of the Habsburgs, seeing they wanted to destroy the Holy Roman Empire's influence in Europe. After the Crimean War, they lost that safety net, and the Russians never forgave the Austrian-Hunagarians.

Excellent.... simple & clear!

That red-green naval ensign with the two crowns is one of the best looking flags ever made

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I loved this video!! ❤️ The Austro-Hungarian Empire 🇦🇹🇭🇺 has always caught my attention, since it was a great economic power with important cities (Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Krakow...) and was home to many different nationalities (Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes and Romanians). I wonder what would have happened if this Empire had not disappeared after the First World War. 🤔🤔

At the time or wasn’t known officially as Lviv or Lvov. It was Lemberg. If you use the names the countries had at the time, you must do the same for cities.

And with one bullet, an Empire collapsed...

0:05 In 1867 Buda and Pest were not united!

Nationalisim in WW1 : 🙂 Nationalisim in WW2 : ☹

It's the problem with Ruling a nation made of different nationalities that are so different

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A truthful video of course for the fall of the Austro-Hungarian which was quite bizarre honestly,good friends!!!

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If the federalism were to be succeeded, their new name would be Austria-Hungary-Bosnia-Herzegovina-Croatia-Slovenia-Slovakia-Czechia Empire👍🏻