The World Before WWI
The world was very diffrent before World War I. Before the war, territories and nations looked very diffrent then they do today. Many empires were built before the war and many other countries had gained their independence. There was already a vast amount of revolutions that broke out in the late 1800's, many countries were at peace and many others were at a great unrest for years before the war.
Austria-Hungary was the largest nation and was "a multinational state composed of Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Romanians and Italians.Italy was nearly as young a nation as the German Empire proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in 1871.Poland was divided up completely among Prussia, Austria-Hungary and Russia in the third Polish Partition of 1795 and had since disappeared from the map as an independent state. Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it had been united with Russia as "Congress Poland" under a single monarch. Under Russian rule since 1809, the grand duchy of Finland enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy in the 19th century. That status was abolished by Tsar Alexander III in 1899 but reinstated by Tsar Nicholas II six years later."Spain had already lost nearly all of its territories and suffered great unrest ever since napoleon conquered their land."Iceland, which had been a part of Denmark since the 14th century, had also attained partially autonomy during the second half of the 19th century."
Austria-Hungary was the largest nation and was "a multinational state composed of Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Romanians and Italians.Italy was nearly as young a nation as the German Empire proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in 1871.Poland was divided up completely among Prussia, Austria-Hungary and Russia in the third Polish Partition of 1795 and had since disappeared from the map as an independent state. Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it had been united with Russia as "Congress Poland" under a single monarch. Under Russian rule since 1809, the grand duchy of Finland enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy in the 19th century. That status was abolished by Tsar Alexander III in 1899 but reinstated by Tsar Nicholas II six years later."Spain had already lost nearly all of its territories and suffered great unrest ever since napoleon conquered their land."Iceland, which had been a part of Denmark since the 14th century, had also attained partially autonomy during the second half of the 19th century."