Austria-Hungary’s Desperate Final Weeks Before Total Collapse

In six weeks of October and November 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke apart from the inside. In today's video I will discuss how the last great dynastic state in Europe collapsed, and why the borders drawn in those six weeks still shape central Europe today. 🎬 Full series — Europe Between the Wars:    • Europe Between the Wars   Also watch: 🇦🇹 The Habsburgs: What Happened to Europe’s Most Powerful Royal Family?    • What Happened to the Habsburgs After Their...   🇩🇪 Weimar Germany: The Republic That Destroyed Itself    • Weimar Germany: The Republic That Destroye...   Subscribe: 👉    / @thesleepyhistorianhistory   Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe Voice over by Paolo Bellini Chapters 00:00 Vienna 05:18 The Fourteen Points 10:50 Vittorio Veneto 16:39 Eckartsau 📚 Primary Sources 1914-1918-Online (Freie Universität Berlin) Die Welt der Habsburger (ww1.habsburger.net) Hansard, House of Lords, Distress in Austria, 22 Dec 1919 US National Archives — Wilson's Fourteen Points First World War.com — Karl's Schönbrunn Declaration, 11 Nov 1918 Šmidrkal, Nationalities Papers (Cambridge) #austriahungary #historydocumentary #europeanhistory #austria #hungary #habsburgempire #habsburgdynasty