Gavrillo Princip, the man responsible for the accelerating the break-up of the English Empire, the ascension of the US into a super-power, Communism in Eastern Europe and the death of tens of millions soldiers and civilians...

(Taking WAAAAAAAY too many liberties here, folks... Please don't blast me - I'm just having a little fun with revisionist history)

Had he not set off a chain of events leading to World War I, Germany would not have suffered defeat and the Treaty of Versailles.

Adolf Hitler used public outrage against this treaty to rally Germans to the Nazi party and lay claims to land belonging to Germany prior to the treaty. Through the policy of appeasement, he reacquired these lands, while simulataneously surrounding himself with the myth that he could do no wrong propogated amongst his generals and the populace.

Without Hitler, there's no World War II.

World War II and the strain it put on the English colonies hastened their bid for freedom from colonialism.

Most European powers had their industries and population centers decimated by war, requiring all available efforts to be placed into domestic rather than military projects.

And without WW II, Soviet expansion into Europe would have been met with force - certainly not being welcomed as liberating heroes.

Makes you think...

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