Do you think the world would have been better if Franz Ferdinand lived?

Question

The guy being killed led to WW1 which led to WW2. That created a whole lot of separatists movements and also led to Korea and vietnam wars and so on.
Am I looking at this a little simply or do you think the 1900's would have been alot more peaceful if Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not killed in 1914??

Answer 1

Yes, you are looking at this too simply. Before you go any further - the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was a European affair - particularly in the Balkans.
To say that that this event led to the wars on Korea and Vietnam is stretching it very thin. Korea had already been claimed as a part of the Japanese Empire as of 1910, four years before the events that occurred in Sarajevo took place. The subsequent division of Korea was the result of the Second World War, and a conflict in Korea would have happened even without the participation of Russia and the U.N.

France already claimed Indochina as a colony after the Sino-French War in 1885. That the Vietnamese people fought to become an independent nation in 1945 has practically nothing to do with the Balkan Wars. To answer your question - since the effects of the Great War were largely not felt in Korea and Japan - no, I do not think the world would have been better.

Answer 2

Dude, if it wasn't him, it would have been somebody else.

Those Baltic nations despised each other, there was rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, everybody was broke and countries were in dire straits.

I'm sure something else would have set it off. It would have been nice if somebody had come up with a diplomatic solution to all the problems, but I just don't think anybody was in the mood.

Hopefully, we can learn that though conflict is inevitable, war doesn't have to be.

Answer 3

Good question, but it leads us to another...If Archduke Ferdinand wasn't killed, then what would the band Franz Ferdinand be called???

Answer 4

there would be people that would still be alive the wars nevr would hae happended
but that couldd mean that the world would be worse off becaue we wouldnt of had to defend ourselves....you never know....its all how you see it