Everyone's all about Bissonette, but there's been a guy spinning three plates continuously for 4 years now.

@CallieMasters5000

2 ай бұрын

Kelly Moneymaker is the real power behind the throne.

@prakharchaudhary9797

2 ай бұрын

​@@CallieMasters5000nope it's charles the first

@hecksters423

2 ай бұрын

Fs to "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard" for he's not in the end of the special thanks

@adishkulkarni

2 ай бұрын

Sky Chappelle the real O.G

@gravitykat714

2 ай бұрын

Gustav Swann tho

It's really depressing how Austria went from one of the great powers of Europe to getting confused with a barren desert penal colony

@fr0ntend

2 ай бұрын

Going from great power to irrelevant any %

@The_whales

2 ай бұрын

The Ottoman Empire: first time?

@writerconsidered

2 ай бұрын

I really had to think about that before I got it.

@AuroraBoost

2 ай бұрын

Imagine how portugal and spain felt

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2 ай бұрын

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It all fell apart when James Bissonette stepped down as Emperor. 😔

@Didyouknowthatiexist

2 ай бұрын

Restore emperor James of the house of bissonette.

@barsukascool

2 ай бұрын

Well yeah, that’s how every country ends…😢

@user-gq4hs7xx7w

2 ай бұрын

Fr...

@no.6660

2 ай бұрын

These comments are getting really annoying

@TransKidsMafia

2 ай бұрын

My teenager is suing me for transitioning them when they were a toddler. Help.

Austria went from a small unimportant realm, to a Great Power across Europe, back to a small unimportant state.

@projektkobra2247

2 ай бұрын

Kinda like Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Greece, Macedonia, and Italy. And soon probably England. Japan too!...Nothing wrong with a quaint tourist economy..just saying!

@ThePanEthiopian

2 ай бұрын

North macedonia was created by Serbia so Bulgaria couldn't have it.

@chrisl9934

2 ай бұрын

It was pretty important during the cold war as a neutral state right along the iron curtain.

@elementallynx493

2 ай бұрын

​@@projektkobra2247Britain has definitely lost a lot of power, and is in a bad state right now, but it isn't unimportant. Italy is about the same as always, the political position there has been bad since the start.

@DacLMK

2 ай бұрын

@@ThePanEthiopian No. As a Macedonian I highly disagree.

1:56: "And Hapsburg Foreign Policy was atrocious." Excellent. Just excellent.

@galatheumbreon6862

2 ай бұрын

ikr lol it was kinda true in a way

@seanjones3127

2 ай бұрын

I disagree with the crimean war as an example though, that was a lose-lose-lose situation @@galatheumbreon6862

@Wolfeson28

2 ай бұрын

Kind of ironic, considering how they got their empire in the first place.

@2MinuteHockey

2 ай бұрын

It's because the Germanic world truly hates the Slavic world, WWII was a continuation of that policy because Jewish and Slavic was synonymous at that time.

@xbirdshorts5075

2 ай бұрын

Not helping russia in the crimean war might have been the worst geopolitical move committed outside of france in 19th century and that's a fierce competition. If only franz joseph knew he would be screwing up the entire first half of 20th century of the entire world and destroying russia, austria, turkey and germany (twice)

3:23 Franz Ferdinands last words were "Sophie! Sophie! Don't die! Stay alive for our children!" He didn't know his wife was already dead by that point

@ell3655

2 ай бұрын

Was it really?

@zavaraninoveuhorky

2 ай бұрын

@@ell3655Yes it was...

@fireironthesecond2909

2 ай бұрын

Simp

@Zeruel3

2 ай бұрын

@@ell3655 Yes, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek had what was basically a Cinderella style romance and had to fight an incredibly hard battle to be together. Because she wasn't seen as equal by the Hapsburg court for marriage they were treated really badly, which resulted in them and their kids staying away from it. One of the main ways the Kaiser became close friends with Franz Ferdinand was by being nice to his wife

@ell3655

2 ай бұрын

@@Zeruel3 that’s really sweet actually. I’m not too familiar with preWW1 era, so was Franz Ferdinand an alright guy, or did they have the assassination coming?

All eight of my immigrant ancestors came to the U.S. from the collapsing Austro-Hungarian Empire between the years of 1891-1922. The bureaucratic indifference with which the Habsburgs treated "Galicia" (modern day southern Poland & Western Ukraine) led to a series of famines in the mid-to-late 19th century called the "Galician Misery" that was arguably worse in scale and scope than the Irish Potato Famine. There's an extraordinarily limited amount of English-language information about the slow decay of the Habsburg Empire, and I think it's a topic of extraordinary relevance and importance. Thank you for adding a little more to what's out there.

@AdaKizi248

2 ай бұрын

My maternal grandparents (Ukrainians) were from Galicia and got out of Austria-Hungary just before the First World War, for which I am thankful.

@Wilderness-Will

2 ай бұрын

@@AdaKizi248 My paternal great-Grandfather in particular came from a village west of Rzeszów. He came to the U.S. in December of 1913. We're pretty sure he planned to stick around for a year or two, make some money in the factories of Chicago, and bring it home. Seven months after he arrived, his temporary home became a permanent one.

@TheAustrianAnimations87

2 ай бұрын

@@Wilderness-Will Galicia was the worst place back then to live in the Austrian Empire. Rich in oil, yet very poor.

@wiedstruck4474

2 ай бұрын

Oh wow that is fascinating. I always love reading these family backstories in comment sections

@sion8

2 ай бұрын

*+*

Fun fact: "Concert Europe" refers to the Vienna Concert Hall. That's how much the Habsburgs represented the traditional order.

One has to keep in mind though, that while nationalism was popular and nationalistic movements within the empire were growing, most people prior to ww1 didn´t want independent states because they reckognized the benefits that the united empire provided. For example, while the people in the city of Triest on the Adria coast were italians and identified as such, they also knew that Triest was the only great Adria port of the empire. If Triest were to become an italian city, it would just be one Adria port of many, and quickly loose its economic importance (which is exactly what happened after ww1). Or take for example the bohemian industrialists. Bohemia was the industrial center of the empire. But most of the rich people who consumed all those industrial goods lived in the austrian part, in citys like Vienna or Graz, and many of the raw materials and ressources came from other parts of the empire as well, a hard border with all of those territories would´ve seriously worsened the situation for bohemian industrialists. Next example: Galicia: The region of galicia was THE provider of oil for the austrian empire, thanks to galicia austria was the second largest oil producer in the world for a short time in the early 20th century. But without austrian and bohemian industrialists as guaranteed buyers, galician oil just wasn´t competitive, and poland, the new owner of galicia, just didn´t have enough industry that could buy all the oil, therefore galicia began to decline. Hungarian grain, emerging car manufacturing, etc. The examples of economic advantages that the united empire provided, were numerous, and most people knew that. And because of this, many people within the empire might have been nationalists, but they also were rationalists and this meant that most people might have been in favour of more autonomy, but they weren´t in favour of abolishing the empire completely

@toastyanon8902

2 ай бұрын

Very interesting! It reminds me of what someone once said about the ethnic tensions in Iraq - each ethnic group was happy to have an Iraq (or Austria), but they wanted to be the ones in charge of Iraq (or have more sway in Austria)

@elijahmikaelson5319

2 ай бұрын

Where can i read informations like that?

@RedDot-vz5iw

2 ай бұрын

@@elijahmikaelson5319 Well, I`m german and I study history at university, so I read about it in a bunch of german history books and my profs taught me about it, but that´s probably not very helpfull for you. Funnily enough, a good place to start any research is Wikipedia, so if you just want to get a basic overview, maybe read a few wikipedia articles about Austria-Hungary, it´s regions and their economic development. If you want to dive a bit deeper, any book about the economic history of the austrian empire or even eastern europe should give you a good overview. David F. Goods "The economic rise of the Habsburg empire" is probably still one of the best books about the topic, and it´s only roughly 220 pages. If you really want to dive into it, you´d need to read literature about the individual regions, or literature comparing different regions but that´s really advanced stuff, if you want to dive that deep, you might as well enroll at university. Alison Franks "Oil empire. Visions of prosperity in austrian galicia" is the only english text that I read though, the other books and texts about regional economic development were all in german. Hope that helps.

@stevensamuels4041

2 ай бұрын

I heard it was actuall, just The Cekš who wanted intependence , every ethnic Group was just fine like it was, the croats and romanians just wanted a higher voice.

@RedDot-vz5iw

2 ай бұрын

@@toastyanon8902 That´s an interesting comparison. I think you´ll find such sentiments in most multi-ethnic or multi-religious states, they usually work, as long as they provide some benefits for most inhabitants, but once bigger and bigger problems start to occur, loyality to the state or the current group leading the state decreases, which leads to an exacerbation of problems. In some cases, this can be fixed, and Austria-Hungary was, contrary to what many believe, not doomed from the start. It remains to be seen wether Iraq can fix it´s many problems. It certainly has the potential to do so.

Honestly, the fact that the multi-ethnic Austrian Empire outlived Yugoslavia in long-year comparison, despite the ethnic tensions and divisions in the country, is an achievement on its own. Give them credit for that.

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2 ай бұрын

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@Passonator11

2 ай бұрын

no thanks to the Hungarians...

@kostam.1113

2 ай бұрын

It's not a fair comparison since Yugoslavia lived in an age of nationalism from it's creation to its end While Austria only experienced full age of nationalism in its last years and obviously didn't survive that

@dayros2023

2 ай бұрын

Being more stable than an union or balkan countries is not an achievement

@haziqhaziq5550

2 ай бұрын

agreed.Even yugoslavia only able to remain intact due to the communist dictatorship.

Always happy to see another upload!

@franciscoacevedo3036

2 ай бұрын

Hungary's role is pretty similar to the role of the south and overall conservative states in the USA the ôlįgårch college blatantly benefits them the Senate is 50 50 despite being 40M less Americans on the "red" states and endless gerrymandering just so 🤍 conservatives can keep getting their fix of whitesterity package pīls is beyond toxic for the country

@joshuayllanes6448

2 ай бұрын

Without you, all is lost

@Steeyuv

2 ай бұрын

@@joshuayllanes6448well, not quite all of it, but the quality of the jokes would definitely suffer.

@Maxfromohio2155

3 күн бұрын

The man the myth the legend james bisonette

There's a lot more that can be added to this. -A fundamental issue was its military spending had structural problems. If you look at "Tactics and Procurement in the Habsburg Military 1866-1918" by John Dredger, you see that the Austrian military constantly gave out shitloads of promotions for financial/corrupt/political/nepotic reasons, and ended up with an enormous officer class(and not enough NCOs!) that cost a shitton of money, partially because they received generous pensions. This resulted in wasteful military spending because of so much money going to this bloated officer class, shitty leaders who would push more bad financial military decisions(like making lots of forts and giving them outdated guns). This also lead to a cycle of losing wars->having loans because of wars->more incentive to keep military spending high because of losing wars->budget is crunched. So I would like to push back on the idea of "oh, Austria didnt spend enough on the military because of the Hungarians and so on" prior to a specific period. They spent comparative amounts to other countries up until 1889- the problem was their military spending was largely wasted on their officer class and stupid spending projects like forts and trying to catch up on the battleship race from scratch. Spending more in the 1800s would not have made them capable of winning wars, it wouldve just wasted money! They needed military reform. I dont know what the officer promotion situation looked like after 1890, nor the origin of it- the Napoleonic era Austrian military did not have this issue(it had different ones), so the origin was after that. - Austria used to maintain its position by being diplomatically flexible- whenever threatened by a power, it would team up with others who were scared by that power in order to avoid a threat. The ossified alliance system of WW1 prevented them from being able to use this. - Pieter Judson has some interesting comments on how nationalism was exacerbated by various political structures in Austria, but i havent finished reading his book so I cant elaborate. But I think theres a lot to be said about the nature of the situation regarding nationalism. - The Austria-Hungary compromise sure was crippling. If you look at the Austrian half, they had universal male suffrage 10 years before Britain did! But the Hungarian half was way behind that, and was also vastly more agricultural than modern countries at the time like USA/Germany/etc, keeping them behind economically. It didnt satisfy the Hungarians either-the compromise only satisfied the Hungarian nobility, so its not like it placated Hungarian nationalism, it felt like a betrayal to those who believed in the Hungarian cause of 1848. - Regarding the Crimean war, I'd recommend watching "The Perils of Neutrality: Austria and the Crimean War" by Old Britainnia

@Tovalokodonc

2 ай бұрын

I see you're interested in the subject, so let me actually point out a few flaws in the video. "Blocking of reforms" as such, did not happen. The only instance of such ever happening was the aforementioned military budget issue, which stemmed from the opposition's (Independence party) obstruction and later, by them grabbing power between 1905-1910. It was finally resolved in 1912. I also, don't understand what History Matters means by "blocking Agrarian reforms", such would be a domestic issue of Hungary, Vienna dictating reforms to Hungary's economy would be a breach of the fundamentals of the dual monarchy - i'm sure you know about the internal workings of the dual monarchy, i don't need to detail it for you. And then the whole video contains faulty maps, Humgary missing Burgenland, Szeklers disappearing on ethnic maps, etc.. Don't take anything you heard from this video for granted

@hdaNhun

2 ай бұрын

Hungary not being industrialized was one of the reasons for the revolution as well. We weren't allowed to modernize because Austria wanted a breadbasket that's easy to control, not an economically viable competitor that can stand on its own.

@Mightfox

2 ай бұрын

@@hdaNhun Why didn't Hungary industrialize after the dual monarchy was implemented? Was it because the hungarian government was controlled by a small population of hungarian aristocrats who were interested in a more controllable agrarian country?

@AEIOU05

2 ай бұрын

I‘ve actually read different accounts, with Austria having a problem with attracting young men to be career officers and most officers retiring at the rank of major.

@Mightfox

2 ай бұрын

@@AEIOU05 Which years? That sounds like that mayve been the case around the Napoleonic era, or perhaps right before WW1, but not for ~1840-~1880.

The one good thing about the Austro-Hungarian Empire is that the British didn't get involved.

@Seft2_

2 ай бұрын

They did post collapse

@erdood3235

2 ай бұрын

What?

@chrisl9934

2 ай бұрын

@@erdood3235 He meant the British were not involved in the post-war state of the empire, deciding the fates of each entity, which they liked to do when The British Empire was still a great power.

@swhip897

2 ай бұрын

​@@Seft2_seems they stuck their nose in everywhere.

@asnekboi7232

2 ай бұрын

@@swhip897 you don’t conquer a quarter of the world by keeping your yourself

Good video ideas: - Why did Venezuela decline? - Why did Haiti fail? - Why did the First Mexican Empire collapse? - Why isn’t Central America united? - Why did Afghanistan fail? - Why does San Marino exist? - Why did the Mali Empire decline?

@barsukascool

2 ай бұрын

Ok

@deleted-something

2 ай бұрын

He did some of them, also watch why did the Central American union stop existing

@paulcowlishaw

2 ай бұрын

Why did Cezchoslovakia disband

@deleted-something

2 ай бұрын

Oh yea and France killed Haiti since day 1

@johanrodriguez3275

2 ай бұрын

Yeah those are some really good ideas, there could also be one video about the Central African Empire, cause that state seems like the most random one ever lol

Lack of backing from the ancient and wealthy Bissonnette line.

@barsukascool

2 ай бұрын

Ha. Ha. Ha.

@TransKidsMafia

2 ай бұрын

Please be kind to trans kids My newborn is trans

@jira6423

2 ай бұрын

Rage bait

@jamesbissonette8002

2 ай бұрын

Nah

@johnroscoe2406

2 ай бұрын

wtf happened in these comments lolz

As someone who has been studying history for the last five years, I greatly appreciate the channel and the accuracy of the ever changing European borders throughout 1800-1950

There seems to be a mistake on the map showing Austria-Hungary in the video, the Hungarian part doesn’t include Burgenland, the thin German populated strip in the eastern side of today’s Austria. It only became part of Autria after WW1.

@oliverschlesinger6744

2 ай бұрын

the video doesn't include a burgenländer-joke either. they are old but gold

@MaxwellTornado

2 ай бұрын

German-speaking Hungarian populated*

@matthiasbehrendt6112

2 ай бұрын

​@@MaxwellTornadoIf they speak German they are Germans/Austrians. If they speak Hungarian they are Hungarians.

Austrian here... my country was never good at being a military powerhouse. Austria was always best when they tried the diplomatic route and avoid fighting. "Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube." - "May others wage war, you happy Austria marry." This means that Austria always tried to settle disputes by marrying their line to other powerful lines in order to form alliances and stable relations. But whenever we were "forced" to fight it seldom went well.

@adamwarlock1

2 ай бұрын

True. And this left them with a lot of territories that had all been acquired under different conditions and expected different treatment. And whenever they tried to make things more uniform (Joseph II in general, Franz-Joseph changing the status of Bosnia, many others) things would fall apart because it went against the spirit of how they'd been stuck together in the first place.

@TheAustrianAnimations87

2 ай бұрын

"My country was never good at being a military powerhouse." Really? Austria is the country which crushed the Ottoman Empire at its peak under Eugene of Savoy (look up for him). Austria survived the Austrian War of Succession against several opponents (Prussia, Spain, France, Bavaria, etc.) with minimal help. Austria was quite unlucky to fight against great generals like Frederick the Great and Napoleon, yet still managed to beat them in several battles like Kolin, Hochkirch, Bassano (1796) and Aspern-Essling. Napoleon even had respect for his Austrian foes after Wagram. As for the post-Napoleonic Wars Austria won the 1st Italian War of Independence against the Italians, helped Prussia to beat Denmark and once again defeated the Italians at Custoza and Lissa in 1866. "Austria was always best when they tried the diplomatic route and avoid fighting." Well, you're not wrong about this part. The Congress of Vienna for example is when Austria tried its diplomatic route.

@ernestbrown9660

2 ай бұрын

@@TheAustrianAnimations87 The Austrian-born artist Alexander King explained it well when he pointed out that whenever Austria did win a war, it, like the United States, then had to prop its enemies back up again in the interest of its own long-term goals and the European balance of power. The average Austrian became pretty cynical about military victories.

@markobucevic8991

2 ай бұрын

@@TheAustrianAnimations87 Austria never crushed ottoman empire, defeated yeah, but nothing like a complete destruction of their army, and for example, many important defeats of the ottoman empire was done by croatian people defending key points/forts despite being out numbered around 10-100 to one croatian soldier. Not to forget the pope lending a hand here or there, the polish and their hussars coming at the last moment and so on. Dont forget the austrian knights were defeated by swiss peasants armed with just halberds.

@roland969

2 ай бұрын

hungarian here: yes we have some complicated history, but a UAS sounsd cool.

funny thing about the assassination Franz Ferdinand’s last words to his wife was “Don’t die, live for our children” before promptly dying and an hour later after he died, his wife died

@cattysplat

2 ай бұрын

He got to die thinking a beautiful lie, she got to die knowing the crushing truth.

@ThePikminCaptain

2 ай бұрын

That’s sad, not funny

Fun fact: The "return Europe to a state before the French revolution" wasn't implemented due to several reasons but a rather significant one for Prussia, Austria and Russia was Poland (or the PLC to be exact) would exist in it's post 1st partition borders. As none of them wanted that it was decided that rather than pre-Revolution Europe would be "pre-Napoleon" and even then not entirely.

@dexterity___

2 ай бұрын

It was impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. Unnatural social conditions literally force the people to lash out. The conservatives are their own worst enemy they create their opponents whenever they go.

@volbound1700

2 ай бұрын

Actually Poland was broken up slightly before the French Revolution. It was close though in timing.

@stafer3

2 ай бұрын

@@volbound1700 Poland was carved 3 times. 1772, 1793, 1795. French revolution happened in 1789. So only the first lost of territory would be before the limit.

Just got home after a rough day, open KZread, History Matters uploaded... Hell yeah.

@dr69_420

2 ай бұрын

I hope you feel better soon. And get some deserved rest

@hriscubogdan2292

2 ай бұрын

Heads up man. It won't be tough forever. You can do this.

@aaronmarks9366

2 ай бұрын

Hoping you'll have a great day tomorrow

I appreciate the separate flags of Austria and Hungary. Just shows how detailed and well-researched these videos are.

@Tovalokodonc

2 ай бұрын

"detailed and well-researched" 😂😂😂 Yet they completely pinned the blame on Hungary, can't even get their maps right, we did not "block reforms" such as the made-up "agrarian reform" said in the video, such would have been an internal affair of Hungary, undermining the dual monarchy anyway, etc etc.

@MaceY._.

2 ай бұрын

"Well-researched", but forgot to mention that Hungary was the one, who vetoed waging war against Serbia and Russia. The kaiser gave a sh1t and his empire and our country collapsed

I've always wanted to know more about Franz Ferdinand's US of Greater Austria proposal. If it could have prevented or stalled WWI.

@adrianayala5476

2 ай бұрын

It wouldn't have lasted with all the nationalistic forces in play with such a state. Would have a similar fate to Yugoslavia at some point.

@bbartky

2 ай бұрын

@@adrianayala5476Yea, you’re probably right. Bummer. It’s one of my favorite “what if’s”. I like to imagine that it would have evolved into a multi-ethnic, constitutional monarchy that would have been a model for Central and Eastern Europe.

@beepbop6542

2 ай бұрын

The Hungarians almost stopped WW1. The Hungarians didn't want expansion in the Balkans because it would cause instability and make the Austrian half more powerful, so they forced the Austrians to promise not to annex any land from Serbia. Meanwhile, the primary reason for Russian intervention was that they didn't want Serbia to lose any land, and they might have withdrawn if that was promised. Unfortunately, there was no proper communication of the promise between Austrian and Russian diplomats, and war broke out.

@tinkywinky8558

10 күн бұрын

@@adrianayala5476 No it wouldn't have. It was doing pretty well until the Serb hands got involved.

Look what they did to my boy. Much respect to Austria-Hungary. Their foreign policy was indeed atrocious in the mid nineteenth century, but for centuries they dominated the continent because of the political savvy of the Habsburg Dynasty. Massively impactful family, monarchy, and empire. Also, the Austro-Hungarian army is a joy to play in the tabletop miniatures game Blood and Valor. I highly recommend it👍🏻

You’ve been really pumping out videos lately, so happy to see more of your content 😍🥰

The Austro-Hungarian Empire will be forever in our hearts.

@xerxen100

2 ай бұрын

To be honest, maybe its not just in your hearts :D The last opposition of its recreation is Hungary now, but the others gave them a serious pressure now.

@TheCimbrianBull

2 ай бұрын

Home is where the heart is!

I've been curious about this for a long time. Thanx for educating me in such an amusing manner!

Austro-Hungarian empire had one of the best looking flags of all time in my opinion (and I’m not talking about the official one, I’m talking about what people mistakenly believe is the official one)

@The_whales

2 ай бұрын

It also made sense, and seeing Austria Hungary with the same Austrian empire flag would be as strange as the USSR but it keeps the Russian empire flag( if you count the pure tricolor one)

@michaldworakowski187

2 ай бұрын

It became so engraved that ,even with the recent "push" to overcorrect, it became astyle of it's own. There is even a Pride flag based of it.

@Googoogagamf

2 ай бұрын

@@michaldworakowski187”there’s even a pride flag based on it” 💀

@jdogmpd7369

2 ай бұрын

well austria-hungary technically doesnt have a flag so im still using the cool one

@RandomGuy-xq5ku

2 ай бұрын

It's a naval flag

James Bizonette wanted the czechs to be independent.

@hentehoo27

2 ай бұрын

That's an older pun, but it czechs out...

@untitled568

2 ай бұрын

Man as if I needed any more reasons to love James Bissonette!

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@jamesbissonette8002

2 ай бұрын

Possibly

@lilfishyfry.

2 ай бұрын

No, the emperor would never give up those lands.

Hey another video, always happy when you upload :)

I have been waiting for an upload ❤❤😅😅😅❤

the Empire of Austria always fascinated me as well as its slow decline, so I'm very happy you did this short video. Also Franz Joseph's neutral, depressed face towards Hungarian sabotage at 2:38 made me chuckle

Oh damn. I posted in r/AskHistorians the same question and it's nice to see it getting noticed here.

Also important thing is that Austria greatly alienated relatively loyal Bohemia as the most industrialised part of the Empire and the part that bore the highest cost of the Austrian-Prussian war, when Czechs demanded the same treatment as Hungarians got, which Germans and Vienna promptly refused, thus rapidly accelerating Czech nationalism.

@AEIOU05

2 ай бұрын

Austria was actually in the process of dealing with the Czech problems, which was partially resolved in Moravia. Modern historians are increasingly coming to the conclusion that the empire wasn’t doomed to fail, like many historians in the past claimed, and that most problems would be resolved, if ww1 didn’t happen or was won. Politically motivated and biased research between 1918 and 1991 greatly impacted the overwhelmingly negative academic assessment of Austria-Hungary, which is only now being debunked, due to both the collapse of communism and the end of both Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia

@onurbschrednei4569

2 ай бұрын

@@AEIOU05 OTOH, don't the dissolution of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia show that multiethnic countries in the region just don't work? I just can't see how a country with so many different languages and peoples, where the leading "nation" wasn't even close to a majority, would've survived to the modern day. The only successful countries in Europe I can think of are Belgium and Switzerland, but both are much, much smaller with fewer languages.

@AEIOU05

2 ай бұрын

@@onurbschrednei4569 you misunderstood what I said , I meant that the state run education of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia was biased in their research and portrayal of the Habsburg Empire and that with those countries no longer existing a change of thought is starting to take place.

@freebozkurt9277

2 ай бұрын

Because it was seen back then you are trying to ride on the back of the Hungarians. Hungarians fought hard for centuries for independence whereas the Czechs did nothing but when finally Hungary got back its sovereignity the Czechs complained.

@JakeBassCZ

2 ай бұрын

@@freebozkurt9277 The other point of view is that Hungarians were a bunch of rebellious ingrates. It should be noted that Hungary was reconquered from the Ottomans for the money and blood extracted from the lands of Bohemian crown. From their own point of view, Czechs saw themselves as loyal subjects who were not appreciated by the leadership in Vienna, which obviously lead to a lot of resentment towards German-speaking elite and Hungarians, who promptly started oppressing Slovaks, Rusyns and Croats (and Romanians, for whom Czechs didn't care that much, though).

Amazing work as always!

Please do a video on the following subjects: 1. Why did the Revolution of 1848 fail in Spain and the German states? 2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?

I can’t wait for the History Matters video in 10 years about the cult of James Bisonette.

The Austrian Empire's borders were so pretty...

Happy to see a video longer than ~3 minutes again.

The timing of this video is crazy for me. Was just thinking of re-watching 'The Empress' and I was playing Dictators: No Peace roleplaying as a resurgence of the Austria-Hungarian Empire.

My favourite channel

Austria never really recovered economically from the Napoleonic Wars. Between 1815-1848, around 30% of the entire state revenue, year on year was spent on paying interest on the tremendous debt racked up betwen 1813-1815, and only in a single year during that period (1829) did the state budget record a (small) surplus. For comparison, the army’s entire budget during the 1840s was around 40% of yearly state revenue. This is while at peace with chronic supply shortages and dire wages for both officers and soliders. State deficit of course, had to be met with more loans which only added to the debt burden. You can imagine what would happen to the Austrian budget if the government had to actually finance a mobilised army on campaign.

Funny you made this video now, I'm just visiting Vienna this week. Beautiful city.

@johnroscoe2406

2 ай бұрын

Slow down you crazy child You're so romantic for a juvenile You know there's so much to do And only so many hours in the day Heeeey-ay You know that when the truth is told You can get what you want Or you can just get old You're gonna burn out before You even get halfway through Woo-oo When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Oh how much I miss your longer format videos

2:47 Your map is incorrect. You use the post WWI border between Austria and Hungary which was different back then. The question of how Hungary managed to lose territory to Austria after WWI is an interesting topic in itself.

Love your work.

@franciscoacevedo3036

2 ай бұрын

Hungary's open toxic behavior reminds me of the southern USA and overall conservative states in the Usa

@Tovalokodonc

2 ай бұрын

​@@franciscoacevedo3036Hungary had no influence over the Austrian half of the empire, this video is full of misinformation.

@MrThhg

2 ай бұрын

@@Tovalokodonc keep coping and seethe Transylvania is staying Romanian.

How and why did wigs become fashionable is a video I hope to see, you explain even minute details amazing!

Another amazing video

Question for a future video: How did places like the Middle East, China, and India react to the fall of the western Roman Empire? Did they also have “dark ages”?

@galacticguardian2783

2 ай бұрын

The world was not as well connected back then as it is now. I'm sure most of these places had zero reaction to this.

@budwyzer77

2 ай бұрын

People in Italy barely noticed the Western Roman Empire's "fall" in 476. They just went back to having one Emperor rule them from Constantinople.

@Whynotmini

2 ай бұрын

China just thought “nice, soon it will be west china”

@chrisl9934

2 ай бұрын

Those places know of the existence of the Western Roman Empire but it is too far away back then for them to be concerned.

@zainmudassir2964

2 ай бұрын

India has history of warring smaller kingdoms with some eras with sometimes most of the area in unity under empires like Maurya, Delhi Sultanate, Mughals etc.

Writting an essay on nationalism during the 1848 revs as this video was uploaded, scarily perfect timing.

Hi love this channel❤

1:06 LOL...love the tire iron.

I have an autograph from Otto von Habsburg (1912-2009) the last heir to the thrones of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I think he would've been a great monarch.

More Austria-Hungary please! We don't talk about it nearly enough when it is key to basically the last 2 centuries events

Great video 👍🏻

It's always a good day when history matters uploads ❤

“Have you ever heard of the tragedy of Austria? No? I thought so… it’s not a tale the Hungarians would tell…” -Holy Emperor James Bissonette

@johnpepper8603

2 ай бұрын

is it possible to learn, how to become a great power ? ......... not from the Austria

Austria post Napoleon perfectly sums up someone unwilling to move with the times. They couldn't see that things wouldn't ever be as they were again because so much had happened because of Napoleon and the French Revolution that they kept shooting themselves in the foot over and over again until during WW1 they stopped aiming at their feet and went for the head If they had been more open to change and adapting to the new era that had come things would have been very different different the 19th and 20th centuries

@mrroams5812

2 ай бұрын

There is nothing they could have done. Sometimes change is just bad for a particular group or nation and no amount of adaptation can change it, only mitigate it.

@MaceY._.

2 ай бұрын

​@@mrroams5812towards the creation of United State of Austria would have been a good way to change

@mrroams5812

2 ай бұрын

@@MaceY._. And look how that turned out.. the guy who wanted to do it DIED

@MaceY._.

2 ай бұрын

@@mrroams5812 and brought with him the guy, who was against is...

@gosugosu1280

Ай бұрын

Austrian here. Not wanting to move with the times is the single most defining characteristic of Austrians. It's their main problem.

Great video. A four minute one, too

Franz Ferdinand "was too busy being shot." Love these videos. Great work.

Honestly, Austria-Hungary's chance of survival if WW1 hadn't happened were greater than most might think.

@howtoappearincompletely9739

2 ай бұрын

I'd be very interested to hear the reasons for that.

@bauschaum2158

2 ай бұрын

@@howtoappearincompletely9739 A few points one could make for this are: 1.: AH did not have nearly as many or as violent revolts as other multiethnic empires did during their last years (The Ottoman Empire or Tsarist Russia for example) 2.: AH did actually expierience economic growth before WW1 (and was modernizing the industry and economy fairly quickly,) as opposed to the Ottomans or even the Soviet Union and Eastern Germany (idk about the economic situations in the rest of the Warsaw Pact) just before the fall of the Warsaw Pact 3.: The nationalist/seperatist movements of the different ethnic groups were not necessarily mainstream before the outbreak of war and there were voices both outside and within these movements who preffered staying in AH instead of forming a small independent Nation State which would then probably fall under strong german or russian influence instead. 4.: Notions like the United States of greater Austria would have at least been tried by Franz Ferdinand or any similarly minded austrian politicians. (Although I'm pretty sure the archduke was the most influencial and powerful of these indiviuduals, so his death would make AH's chances less optimal.) Point being, and I think this is also more or less stated in the video: without Nationalism the war would have not been nearly as devastating, but nationalism alone would not have torn the empire apart, and it was willing to reform, it only needed more time, weather these reforms would've been succesfull is another question (especially with the Hungarian opposition) but history shows that normally, the larger amount of people are fine with living under foriegn rule as long as there is at least an illusion of stability and order.

@volbound1700

2 ай бұрын

@@bauschaum2158 agree. The Hapsburgs also had a lot of legitimacy with the public in the Empire as well. The Hapsburgs only became unpopular when things got bad during WW1.

@bauschaum2158

2 ай бұрын

@@volbound1700 exactly

@xerxen100

2 ай бұрын

@@bauschaum2158 Naturally Hungarians opposed, since these short period of time, they can became from a medieval age country to became a modern and rich country. The GDP skyrocketed since the Habsburg dont get away all the money from them.

*I feel like the vast majority of world history can be summarized as "Silly and Confusing".*

By golly, you explained it splendidly.

So interesting to see this after I just finished my school history assignment on German unification which lightly touches on the Decline of Austria. To get the full bigger picture is so fascinating!

It also doesn't help that Hungary didn't want to join ww1 at all, but bore more of the brunt than Austria, which didn't exactly encourage loyalty. Also congrats on getting to trending.

00:47 Hungarians and Germans (Saxons) of Transylvania kinda forgotten

@DavidRusu1919

11 күн бұрын

🤦‍♂️

I love the little hand held signs that succinctly convey messages

When the House of Bisonette stopped providing funds and troops it was basically done

I mean, it could've survived. If the central powers won WW1, under the fairly liberal Karl 1st, it was fairly likely that Austria would have been able to federalise into a union of equal states. Something like a Danubian Federation or as United States of Austria could have formed, which would have allowed it to restore it's place as a modern European nation and actually survive into the modern day, instead of the ineffective mess it was.

Tbf the Hungarians were also the ones who recognized that joining WW1 was a terrible idea and then were promptly punished the most for it

@user-xi5ej4ox5s

2 ай бұрын

They were punished not for WW1 but for opressing its ethnic minorities, threating them like cattle and trying to madyarise them by force.

@almabatekert_villanykorte3387

Ай бұрын

Shush you're not supposed to remember that

@user-xi5ej4ox5s

Ай бұрын

They were punished not for this but for opressing their ethnic minorities very badly and threating them like cattle.

Fascinating!

Franz Ferdinand has a bit of a fictional counter-part in Rhaegar Targaryen from Game of Thrones, in that he was a visionary heir to a troubled state ruling over various groups who was killed before he could enact any of his potential reforms.

0:23 is it just me or the the British colonise water with Dutch strategy

It must be said that Austria absolutely did not attempt to merely restore Europe to the way it had been before the Napoleonic Wars. Historia Civilis has a few really great videos on the Congress of Vienna, which was where the post-war world was decided.

Yes, I enjoyed this episode!

Amazing video keep it up 😎

3:18 Some random Hungarian soldiers (& Count Mihály Caroly) to István Tisza on October 31st, 1918 : *_“A VERY POOR CHOICE OF WORDS !!!”_*

Innacurate map at 2:26, Burgenland belongs to hungary before Trianon.

I wanted to ask you if you could make subtitles available in some videos because they aren't available in some? Please.

I did, in fact, enjoyed this episode :) Of course, iw enjoyed many previous ones as well.

Turned austria from a great power to a small, sad state.

@franciscoacevedo3036

2 ай бұрын

Hungary reminds me of the conservative states mainly the south where they're sabotaging the health of the nation for their own selfish reasons

@miroslavdusin4325

2 ай бұрын

Why sad? Austria is a small but nice country. They are sometimes a little intolerant but nobody's perfect.

@pourquoijeexiste674

2 ай бұрын

​@@miroslavdusin4325 inter war austria was a very sad state filled with economic recession and facism

The Hungarians after they lose a lot of land because they kept constantly blocking reforms which led to the empire’s downfall: 😮

@andrisk7513

Ай бұрын

We kept intentianolly blocking reforms to try and sabotage the Austrians for puppeting us for 250 years, which in hindsight was a really bad idea.

@almabatekert_villanykorte3387

Ай бұрын

Ignorant people after they learn hungarian leaders tried to veto the war declaration on serbia,and didn't block reforms that would have actually benefitted everyone,not just austrian ruling class:🫨

@ThePikminCaptain

Ай бұрын

@@almabatekert_villanykorte3387 he didn’t explain that, how am I suppose to know, I don’t search up topics like this, I’m good at history tho

Really insightful and concise. Thank you.

And Konrad von Hötzendorf made a cameo appearance at the end!

I would say this idea is a little bit skewed. While yes on a global scale austria did decline in power but many areas in the kingdom of hungary experienced a "short golden age" various hungarian cities started industrializing during this time, budapest was the third city in the world to have a metro system. Meanwhile most parts of hungary were seriously underdeveloped before this (when the empire was "great"). And i would also add that parts of the austrian half also developed like Prague and vienna aswell. So overall i wouldnt say this is the full picture

@Tovalokodonc

2 ай бұрын

It definitely isn't the full picture

@chriswanger284

2 ай бұрын

D not lie! Budapest was the second city in the world which had underground metro system.

@codboss7092

2 ай бұрын

@@chriswanger284 second in europe. Third in the world after new york and london

@chriswanger284

Ай бұрын

@@codboss7092 new York built its metro many decades later.

Huh, good to see Hungary is still being difficult about sh*t into the modern era. At least they are consistent.

@Tovalokodonc

2 ай бұрын

Except this video is full of misinformation and is pedalling Hungarophobe propaganda. Hungary had no influence over the Austrian half of the empire.

@theshackledgamer799

2 ай бұрын

@Tovalokodonc that is not true. The Hungarians collaborated heavily with the Austrians, and it was the Kingdom of Hungary and Austrian Imperial Government who jointly issued the 10 Demands to Serbia.

@almabatekert_villanykorte3387

Ай бұрын

Hungary is only now being difficult about shit because of the incredibly corrupt government transforming it into a low-key dictatorship by brainwashing the elderly and rigging elections🥰

@Brent-jj6qi

Ай бұрын

@@TovalokodoncWhat exactly is wrong?

@Tovalokodonc

Ай бұрын

@@Brent-jj6qi I actually made a response video if you're truly interested. I can't really summarise, but things like "Hungary refused to modernise" when Hungary had extensive minority rights in the context of the era and was also the world's second largest flour exporter which demanded a well-developed mill industry.

What an insane history. 😂 Good stuff, as ever.

You did a good job highlighting why Austria fell apart, but I think you could have highlighted Franz Josefs incompetence more. After the revolution he brought many things back to what it was before the revolution. He neglected military inovations, since he needed the money to bribe the nobility, but in the same time, the government failed on the diplomatic side, which was the backbone of past habsburg diplomacy. In summary: He developed a large military force while lacking behind in technology because of military innovations getting hold back, everything while they completely messed up their diplomacy. I know you can't make Franz Joseph responsible for all of that, but since he established a neo absolutist state, he held a good portion of the power for himself.

Nowadays, Hungarians still feel sorry for the dissolution of the Empire more than 100 years ago, but they conveniently “forgot” that Hungarians themselves were sabotaging the Empire the whole time.

@Tovalokodonc

2 ай бұрын

But you conveniently forgot that the things stated in the video did not happen. I made a response video to this specific one, debunking the claims made about Hungary

@timeanagy8495

Ай бұрын

I think foreigners dont really understand the situation. There was no empire and such things. It was two states, Totally different states, Austria which was an empire or core Austria and its occupied lands, and there was Hungary, a very old state which made the empire really strong. Hungary also had Croatia which was semi independent. Austria had Chechia. And there was the Habsburg monarchy. Austria was also not equal with the empire or the Habsburgs. Austrians éven had revolts againt the empire! The AH system existed only since 1867, and it was not á happy marriage, the two entity had to make a compromise for different reasons... Its a very dumb thing to speak about the Empire as it was the point.

@kiki88561

Ай бұрын

​@@timeanagy8495 They were 2 sovereign states, but they shared a currency, an army, and their foreign policies, correct? It was more of an alliance than one single empire, but It's still pretty safe to consider them one entity in terms of foreign policies and especially wars.

@timeanagy8495

Ай бұрын

@@kiki88561 i disagree. Austria ruled everything in the empire, the other lands were occupied by force. If I threaten you with death and you join me it's not a real Alliance. The 2/3 of the austrian párt was also occupied

Hungary vetoing things seems not that 21th century after all.

@clericaltotalitarian

2 ай бұрын

Chads

@almabatekert_villanykorte3387

Ай бұрын

Yes,we literally vetoed going to war with serbia. Everyone somehow forgets that

Yoooo one more cool animation

Another interesting topic is why the Hungarians opposed the military reforms. They were afraid that the new, stronger army would be used against them, and from their point of view, not without a reason. Remember, the crushing of the Revolution and War of Independence happened only 20 years before the compromise (which happened in 1867) and was followed by years of retaliation. Hungarian leaders didn't trust the Habsburgs, and for good reason. Up until the Revolution, the Hungarian elite fought for modernization and independence for decades before 1848, and the Habsburgs did everything in their power to stop these attempts. Now this may seem logical from their point of view, but imagine what Hungarian politicians could think after the compromise. They knew full well that the compromise happened only because the Habsburgs had no other choice, and only a few deceased prior a revolution was brutally suppressed, and all independence initiatives were fought against. Now imagine that the same Habsburgs, or their government would ask you to approve a huge military buildup....

1:06 I'm impressed! That guy had a tire iron well before the invention of the tire!

another upload :D

No mention of Metternich and the Concert of Europe?

Subject for next video: What was the exact role of james bisonette in the fall of the HRE ? Thanks a lot

Algorythm boost! Also jesus christ that factory popping up threw me off my chair.

Video ideas: How did the world react to the year without summer? Why is Yemen the only republic on the Arabian peninsula? Why is Bosnia & Herzegowina divided? Why did the Paraguayan War happen?

I really appreciated the presence of the famous Napolen painting which is indeed at Vienna's Belvedere museum

Should have completed the focus tree to deal with the internal conflicts instead of Balkan claims.