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OF MAJOR AND FILE. MAG BY IKO A less publicized front during rae the First World War is without hesitation n the Italian. Italy, which at the outbreak of war in 1914 was allied with Germany class d and Austria-Hungary, rae turned against them in 1915, but was forced after failed rae e offensives request British assistance. Despite rae the limited success of the country came at t belong War victors. The fighting happened mostly in oländi g alpterräng with huge human efforts. Only the Italian text page has losses in the dead reported to 600, 000.
After the unification of Italy in 1860 was more of the Italians populated areas still under Habsburg. The memory of the former Hard Austrian rule before rae the Italian unification, nationalism fervor and these parts of the country came to be termed as Italia irredenta - it oåterlösta Italy. In 1879 included Germany, Austria-Hungary a conditional defense league. Skilled rae policies of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck led to Italy in 1882 also joined the same defense league - what now came to be known as the Triple Alliance. From the German side it was seen as a statement, and against France and against Russia, but also as an opportunity through Italy's sympathy for England to get a connecting London. Austria-Hungary, in turn, with the desire for greater influence in the Balkans in competition against Russia, wanted to make sure at least one Italian neutrality.
Service on foot - Barning! An Austrian mountain battery during travel. Two people from the opposite side has described his experiences from the theater of war: the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in Infanterie greift an!, And Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway in the classic A Farewell to Arms.
After the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Rome had hesitated between a connection to France - the Latin sister nation - or to Germany and Austria. To Vienna at the convention come into possession of Bosnia-Herzegovina had aroused rae great indignation in Italy. The decisive factor, however, was the perceived prestige loss when France occupied Tunis in 1881, the Italians rae then Carthage cases considered "their" colonial area. At the beginning of this century weakened the binding of the Triple Alliance. Relations with France were improved and the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III coincided both with Britain's Edward VII and the Russian tsar. Austria's annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908 brought memories from 1878, and that of Italy started the war in Tripoli in 1911 was rejected openly by Germany. Nonetheless, renewed the Triple Alliance in 1902 and 1912. The war in the Balkans in 1912 came to consider the union's durability but establishing the Kingdom of Albania poured oil on the waves.
{Reg} Triple Alliance treaty contained rae an Article rae VII, which aimed to disarm the possible causes of conflict between Italy and Austria-Hungary. In its main lines went out that if the current status quo in the Balkans or in the Adriatic and Aegean seas would be impossible rae to maintain, and Italy or Austria-Hungary would be forced to intervene, this would happen only after agreement between the two countries. Would any country subsequently achieve territorial or other advantages, the other would mutually compensated, but what was not defined. Otherwise obliged treaty, the three members of a benevolent neutrality with the right to actively participate if one of them started a war of aggression as a result of threatened rae security.
Austria-Hungary took over the summer of 1914 negotiations with Germany on appropriate steps against Serbia after the assassination in Sarajevo on 28 June. From the German side was desired to isolate rae a possible war solely between dubbelmonarkien and Serbia. Too late it was discovered rae that the free hands to Vienna instead led to an inevitable European major war. A month after the shots - July 28 - Austria-Hungary declared itself at war with Serbia. Two days later mobilized Russia and World War II was a fact.
The fortification Tra i Sassi - 2192 m above sea level - one of many Austrian barrier rae forts along Dolomiterfronten, now on Italian soil. 15,000 Italians, without knowing that the fort was largely unarmed and undefended - attacked 70 Austrians for two weeks. Vienna had carefully omitted to carry out negotiations with Rome under Article VII. Somebody hopes that Italy would be satisfied with the Austrian rae interpretation of "reciprocal compensation", namely the domination of Albania, was not. The Italian reaction was also very quite an indictment