The Assassination That Started World War I 😱

Definitely didn’t mistakenly turn into the wrong street.

The most expensive wrong turn in human history, no GPS could've saved them 😅

I love the idea of Archduke Franz Ferdinand strolling in a city completely oblivious to the fact that everyone there is trying to assassinate him.

The gun that started World War I. A Belgian-made Fabrique Nationale model 1910 .380 caliber pistol that was used to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife hours before their assassination, which started WWI. June 28 1914

The assasins:

World War One (1914-1919) The Great War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and set the stage for another world war just 20 years later.

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Never just one thing starts a war. Check the situation now: can you say that one event in the future will start WW3, or is it gradually increasing tension?

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“The driver accidentally turned” that nigga set them up wym accidentally

The driver was in on the plot to kill him… he took the exact route planned giving all the assassins a chance to kill the target, and eventually they succeeded

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This assassination also led to the creation of Hentai

worst butterfly effect of all times

Franz Ferdinand mentioned

A war was already on the horizon long before Franz Ferdinand was even shot. But his shooting is probably the last brick that caused the 3-meter Jenga tower to fall

Directly started World War I and indirectly started World War II

🦋 The Butterfly Effect of an Accidental Turn The entire outbreak of World War I can be tragically linked to a wrong turn by the Archduke's driver, following a failed initial assassination attempt. 1. The Initial Failure (The 'Non-Event') The first attempt on the Archduke's life in Sarajevo failed. A bomb thrown by one of the conspirators, Nedeljko Čabrinović, bounced off the car and injured onlookers. After this, the motorcade sped to the town hall. By all rational measures, the assassination attempt was over. The "butterfly" failed to flap its wings. 2. The Fatal Detour (The 'Flap') After the town hall reception, the Archduke decided to visit the injured officers in the hospital. The revised route was not clearly communicated to the lead driver. The driver of the Archduke's car, in a moment of confusion and poor communication, took a wrong turn onto Franz Josef Street. 3. The Unbelievable Coincidence (The 'Hurricane') The second conspirator, Gavrilo Princip, disheartened after the failed bombing, was coincidentally standing right on that corner, grabbing a sandwich at a nearby shop (Schiller's delicatessen, according to some accounts). When the car was forced to stop and back up to correct the mistake, Princip found himself staring directly at his target, the Archduke and his wife, at point-blank range. He seized the moment and fired the fatal shots. The Legacy This single, accidental, unscripted turn of a car's steering wheel transformed a failed assassination attempt into the catalyst for a global war. Without that navigational error, Franz Ferdinand likely lives, the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum is never issued, the interlocking alliance system is never triggered in that specific sequence, and the world of the 20th century is unrecognizable. The whole conflict hinges on 30 feet of asphalt and a driver's mistake. That is the ultimate, tragic application of the Butterfly Effect in history.

Good to see the... ahem... Egyptian Pan-Arab movement, Serbian Russia and Russian Serbia represented on a WW1 map. Truly underrepresented participants.

Not the Arch Duke looking like he fresh outta Sims 2

How did they get a bomb thrown at them and decided it was a good idea to continue like nothing happened

> The Great War began with the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. > This is the car he rode in. > Look closely at the number plate: AIII 118. > The war ended on Armistice Day — 11.11.1918. > Coincidence? Or a chilling prophecy?

Thanks, Serbia.

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When you signed up for ‘experience’ and they actually gave you experience 😭

Shows how fragile peace is — one assassination turned into a world war. 😔

False. The War started because the banking system was collapsing. Not enough gold to cover all the money they created. The war enabled "emergency" measures, now currency was no longer required to be backed by anything, the creation of fiat. Now that system is collapsing. ☺️

Not scramble for Africa 😂. Germany was not getting more colonies so opted to get more land in Europe. This is just a PR Story.

This was the same exact scene from Kingsman movie

Imagine causing WWI by accident… geopolitics on hard mode. 💀🌍