How a Wrong Turn Started World War I | History
How a Wrong Turn Started World War I | History
Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination caused the outbreak of World War I, but what caused the assassination itself? It may have been something as simple as a wrong turn. #HistoryChannel
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2.33 -> sure most would say World War one
4.98 -> started with a gunshot but there's a lot
8.519 -> more to the story
9.9 -> this is Leopold Lucca he was born on
12.9 -> September 17 1886 in the old bohemian
15.66 -> village of Taos
17.16 -> originally a horse Wrangler Leopold
19.47 -> moved on to real horse power when he
21.21 -> became Archduke Franz Ferdinand's
23.1 -> chauffeur in 1909 Archduke Ferdinand was
26.849 -> first in line to the austro-hungarian
28.619 -> throne then occupied by Emperor Franz
31.05 -> Josef the first but serving as Emperor
34.05 -> wasn't all it was cracked up to be
35.719 -> austria-hungary wasn't exactly the most
37.829 -> popular European country at the time
40.879 -> 1908 the austro-hungarian Empire annexes
44.04 -> Bosnia this ticks off Bosnian
46.379 -> nationalists who wanted to unify all
48.239 -> southern Slavic countries under one
50.28 -> government tensions are still high in
52.559 -> 1914 when Archduke Ferdinand decides to
55.14 -> visit Bosnia if there were any place
57.93 -> where Ferdinand were to get got Sarajevo
60.51 -> Bosnia capital would be it despite this
63.12 -> Ferdinand decides to drive around
64.769 -> Sarajevo with the top down in his
66.72 -> limousine
67.56 -> Leopold loike is driving when out of the
70.35 -> corner of his eye he spots a small bomb
72.299 -> hurtling towards the Archduke and his
73.83 -> wife he slams on the gas and the bomb
75.96 -> misses its target
81.399 -> the bomb was thrown by an Adele coach
83.869 -> obrenovic a member of the young Serbian
85.939 -> nationalist movement there are a few
88.28 -> injuries but Ferdinand and his wife are
90.409 -> unharmed after gathering their bearings
93.259 -> Leopold drives on to a scheduled meet
95.479 -> and greet between the Archduke and local
97.189 -> officials the officials want to take the
99.619 -> Archduke on a tour of the city but
101.39 -> Ferdinand instead decides he wants to
103.67 -> visit the wounded victims from the bomb
105.409 -> attack he gets back into the car with
107.329 -> his wife and has Leopold drive off to
109.369 -> the hospital in all fairness to Leopold
111.649 -> he didn't know the exact route no map no
113.84 -> GPS he made a mistake and turned on to
117.17 -> the wrong Street unfortunately for
119.27 -> Leopold and the rest of Europe this was
121.729 -> the street work of reloj Princip one of
123.56 -> the co-conspirators of the earlier
125.06 -> assassination attempt happened to be
127.31 -> having a drink Princip can't believe his
130.129 -> luck he has an opportunity to finish out
132.23 -> what he started earlier that day as the
141.53 -> crowd tries to subdue Princip the
143.329 -> Archduke and his wife are left bleeding
145.16 -> in the car one bullet struck the
147.019 -> Archduke in the neck the other his wife
149.18 -> in the stomach both died within the hour
154.52 -> in response to the assassination of the
157.29 -> heir to its crown austria-hungary seeks
159.45 -> support from Germany Germany agrees in
161.58 -> austria-hungary declares war on Serbia
162.99 -> Russia
163.8 -> Serbia's Ally mobilizes its forces and
165.9 -> as a result Germany declares war on
167.34 -> Russia Russia's Ally France then
169.41 -> mobilizes its forces which causes
171.12 -> Germany to declare war on France in turn
173.28 -> Great Britain declares war on Germany
174.86 -> austria-hungary then declares war on
176.64 -> Russia Serbia declares war on Germany
178.11 -> and France and Great Britain declare war
179.91 -> on austria-hungary the first world war
185.37 -> has begun and all because of a wrong
189.42 -> turn
198.319 -> you
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIK9Lkf02TE