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Jan 23, 2014 · Before 1914 the critical trouble spot was the Balkans, where nationalist passions were overlaid with religious conflicts between Christian states, such as Greece and Bulgaria, and the Islamic Ottoman empire. The Habsburg monarchy, run by a Roman Catholic elite, was being challenged by Orthodox Serbia.
Jun 19, 2011 · June 19, 2011. 45 Photos. In Focus. The years leading up to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939 were tumultuous times for people across the globe. The Great...
May 25, 2015 · The dominant mood in Western Civilization prior to 1914 was one of pride in its heritage, and confidence in its future progress. World War I created a lack of self confidence that still lingers to this day, 100 years later.
Jan 5, 2017 · From the mid-19th century to 1914, advances like steamships, the telegraph, the telephone and the Suez and Panama canals dramatically shrunk distances and increased communication, and the world underwent a period of rapid globalization.
Britain before World War I had enjoyed almost a century of unparalleled peace and prosperity. Despite the rapid advances of the United States and Germany, Great Britain remained the most technologically advanced nation on Earth, the crucible of the Industrial Revolution, the source of the greatest inventions of the age.
The United States before World War I was an economic superpower rivalling the much older empire-nations of Europe. The 1800s had been a period of division and conflict for the United States, but also one of industrialisation, expansion and prosperity.
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'before the war') was a period in the history of the Southern United States that extended from the conclusion of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861. This era was marked by the prevalent practice of slavery and the associated societal norms it cultivated.
