Germany would have become an economic, scientific and cultural powerhouse.
Without tens of millions of deaths, European nations would have likely put more resources into building their economies. Photos: WWII Wreck Reveals Wartime Romanceīut what if the Archduke's assassin - a Serbian nationalist - missed? What if the "Great War" hadn't occurred? How would the 20th century have evolved differently? Without World War I, there probably wouldn't have been World War II. "The First World War revealed that barbarism lay just beneath the thin veneer of civilization," said Gordon Martel, author of the new book " The Month That Changed The World: July 1914." "It revealed that if you scratch the surface that we are all killers under the skin. In its place came the barbarity of trench warfare, gas attacks, starvation and the great "No Man's Land" between armies. Victorian principles of humankind's orderly progress and the gallantry of war were upended. A month later, five of the six great powers of Europe had declared war on each other.īy the end of the conflict four years later, 37 million soldiers and civilians were killed or wounded, empires were reshaped, and society had changed forever. This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of an obscure event that changed the world - the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
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