Why World War 1 Happened : 28th June 1914. A 19-year-old student at a school, assassinates the Austro-Hungarian Prince. And this one incident, triggered the war. A war that lasted four years. In which more than 20 million people lost their lives. A war, in which, several ancient empires came to an end. A war that was fought across multiple countries and continents. Today, we know of this war as the World War I.
Doesn’t it sound very sensational? Because of this one single event, World War I broke across the world. If we could go back to the past in a time machine, and if we could prevent this assassination, would there be no World Wars in the world?
The reality isn’t this simple, friends. When there’s a large scale war like this, there is a long and complex chain of reasons driving it. And then there’s one such incident that causes a spark.
Imagine if there’s a mountain of dynamites here. And we use a small matchstick to blow up the entire mountain, the following blast would not be because of my matchstick, there was a mountain of dynamite there that’s why it happened.
