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Dual Monarchy

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Dual Monarchy: see Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Austro-Hungarian Monarchy or Dual Monarchy, the Hapsburg empire from 1867 until its fall in 1918.

The Nature of Austria-Hungary



The reorganization of Austria and Hungary was made possible by the Ausgleich
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The war originated as a Continental conflict, at the heart of which was the desire of Austria to smash Serbia, which posed a mortal threat to the continued existence of the creaky Dual Monarchy, and the willingness of Germany to risk a general European war in 1914 rather than wait for what it expected to be worse circumstances later on.
186) Peter Hanak believes that operetta as created in Vienna and Budapest "contributed to the formation of a common mass culture" in the Dual Monarchy.
In the interwar period, Britain, France, Germany and Russia vied to fill the vacuum left by the destruction of the Dual Monarchy, a struggle that in 1939 assumed military form and led to Germany's temporary triumph.
 
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