History Essay

Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination sparked a chain of events that resulted in Britain declaring war on Germany, and the world erupting in World War One. This however, does not mean that war would not have happened without the assassination. The beginning of the twentieth century was a card house of peace built in a wind tunnel, one small breeze such as Gavrilo Princip was the cause in this scenario, but in any other it could have been a million other possible winds that would send this figurative card house to the ground. Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm the second was a whirlwind ready to do anything to beat Britain’s Navy ...