Today is the day. One Hundred Years Ago today the world was changed forever. Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, killed Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and effectively began The Great War which spanned 30 years and was interrupted by a Global world wide depression. Casualty estimates of both wars are at 160,000,000 and include the World Wide Spanish Flu Pandemic, Holocaust and the Russian Civil War and Famine. The Soviet Union is created from Communism which spreads to Civil War in China and leads to conflict which can still be seen on the Korean Peninsula. The Ottoman Empire collapsed and a patchwork of nations that we know as the Middle East was created including the nation of Israel which still effects us today. The technological rush to find better and more efficient ways of killing people lead to advances in nuclear power, and rocketry which would eventually lead to man leaving the confines of the Earth and eventually the confines of the solar system, twice. No one single event has ever in human history had more of an effect on every single person on the planet.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 02:44:25 +0000
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