From Assassination to Global War

One bullet changed the world forever. The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked

World War I. Imagine brutal trench warfare, new deadly tech like poison gas,

and millions dead. The war didn't just end; its harsh peace treaty, Versailles,

punished Germany and set the stage for WWII. Even winners like China faced humiliation,

losing territory. Then, the Roaring Twenties crashed into the Great Depression:

stock markets tanked, banks failed, and a quarter of people lost jobs. It took another

global war to truly recover. What a wild ride for a few decades.