Class question
Why did the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand lead to World War I?
History Quotes
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
2 comments:
I think it lead to WWI because the arkdukes country wanted revenge on the killers country so the went to war. Each side then made allies which went to war. Then the allies and other countries went to war with each other. Over time countries keeped on going to war and soon it became a war were everybody knew about it and alot of countries were in it. All over an assination. Que tonto!!! (Spanish for how stupid!!!)
I agree with ryan, but also like i said in a few other comments, it was what the assasins told the authorities when they got caught. And then the war wouldn't have started or if it did then it would have been later on and the might not have been a ww2. funny how things like that work out....
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