ANTANTA I ANEKSIONA KRIZA (1908 - 1909)

Milorad, P, Radusinović

Istorija 20. veka

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https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=801294

1991-2020/03/21/16:55:35

The Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was based on the resolution of the Berlin Congress held in 1878. The decision made by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1908 to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina provoked an international crisis. The countries of the Triple Entente - England, France and Russia, strongly censured this accomplished act policy and supported the defiance manifested towards the »black and yellow« Monarchy on the part of Serbia and Montenegro, both of them countries with an immediate interest in the issue. Montenegro soon left the diplomatic initiative to Serbia which associated its diplomatic activity with that of Tzarist Russia. Mighty Germ any was the only country which sided, with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy while Italy, although a part of the Tripartite Alliance, hesitated, distrustful of the German plans for conquest. In the ensuing diplomatic duel between the two opposing sides, the Entente was defeated. This defeat was most suffered by Serbia and Russia. Serbia, which had been preparing for war, was obliged to discharge its volunteer troops, withdraw the army from the border, return the state of its armed forces to that of the spring of 1908 and maintain peaceful relations with the Austro -Hungarian Monarchy. Russia, seeing itself as the Slavic patron, felt it had not fulfilled its obligation towards Serbia after having aroused the hopes of both Serbia and Montenegro for a favorable solution of the Bosnian issue. As far as France and England were concerned, however, the whole issue had just been an unpleasant episode which they wished to forget.

Austria-Hungary, 1908-1909, annexation crisis, BiH, Triple Entente