This topic has an impact on history because if there wouldn’t have been the small fights within the Balkans, there more than likely wouldn’t have been WWI following soon after. This also means that there wouldn’t have been a decline of the Ottoman Empire and the land wouldn’t have been split up between different countries.
The collapse of Austria-Hungary was important for the balance of power system. It also was important for the Vienna government. Austria’s German ally, and for the other great powers.
The result of the Balkan Wars impacted not only the great power geopolitics but the alliance system also. Two alliance blocs were formed by the great powers in 1912. One was the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The other bloc was the Triple Entente of Russia, France, and Britain. Military planners paid attention to changes in the balance of power they while developed their war plans and calculated the distribution of their army corps. The Austro-Hungarian security policy was impacted greatly by Serbia’s expansion of doubling in territorial and population size. In order to prevent Serbian power from growing after 1913, Vienna’s military planners attempted to move numerous divisions from the Russian to the Serbian front. This meant that some troops could be shifted by those Russian planners away from the Austro-Hungarian front to the north-eastern front against Germany. The German military planners placed a majority of their forces to the offensive against France. This left their eastern flank exposed to attack. “In short the shifts in the Balkans had significant consequences for the military balance of power in Europe, ones that were largely unfavourable for the Triple Alliance. This increased the nervousness of figures like Helmuth von Moltke (the German Chief of the General Staff) and his Austrian counterpart, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorff.” The Ottoman Empire lasted half a millennium. The Balkan wars marked an end to the Ottoman empire in Europe and that is why this event is very important.