What did the Austrian-Hungarian Empire do during ww1? I remember back in high school that we just learned that they started WW1, but then it became Germany vs the world.
>>1395576
They beat up Serbia (eventually) and then did little of effect.
They spent most of their war effort on the Eastern Front, usually losing to the Russians and needing the Germans to bail them out. They sent a few large siege artillery pieces west, IIRC.
They also fought the Italians up around the Alps, in a front that really didn't move much at all.
I think they also had some submarine action in the Med, but I don't know about that theater too well.
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Plus they suffered a lot of nationalist insurrections that eventually tore them apart. This was mostly down to three things:
>the entente governments supported governments-in-exile of all the nations of the empire, even the ones that did not have popular mandates from their own people
>Slavs on the eastern front did not like fighting other Slavs to further a German cause
and obviously the good old extremist Balkan nationalism that we all know and love.
>>1395576
they fought the italians a lot
Caporetto was a devastating defeat for the Italians, so much so that it's now an idiom
Distracted the Russians, mostly.
>>1395576
Took an embarrassingly long time to defeat Serbia, got BTFO by Russia, and dicked around with Italy in the alps.
