HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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the rise of Poland
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the decline of the Ottoman Empire
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A decline in nationalist sentiment in Europe
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Russian refusal to become involved int he Balkans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Starting in the 1600s, the Ottoman Empire began to lose its economic and military dominance over Europe. Around this time, Europe had strengthened rapidly with the Renaissance and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mehmed V, original name Mehmed Reşad, (born Nov. 2, 1844, Constantinople-died July 3, 1918, Constantinople), Ottoman sultan from 1909 to 1918, whose reign was marked by the absolute rule of the Committee of Union and Progress and by Turkey’s defeat in World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -The demise of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Caliphate) made a lasting impact to the Muslim world. Britain and France curved up the Middle East through Sykes-Picot Agreement and gave birth to a new Middle East where oil and petrodollar shaped the politics and economy under their patronage.
Detailed explanation-4: -The disruption caused by the Balkan Wars and a primitive railway network meant that the Ottoman Empire was the slowest of all the great powers to mobilise in 1914. It took three months for the army to complete mobilisation and gather in the last of its one million reservists.