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Buchlau bargain (1908)
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16 Sep 1908 — At Buchlau castle in Moravia the foreign ministers Aehrenthal and Izvolsky strike a secret deal: Russia will accept Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia in return for help opening the Straits to Russian warships. Vienna annexes three weeks later, and Russia never gets the Straits.
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- Bosnian crisis and the Balkan Wars (chapter 2 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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