Can Anyone link the assasination of Franz Ferdinand to the current state of global affairs in Middle East?????

Question

Can Anyone link the assasination of Franz Ferdinand to the current state of global affairs in the middle east?

Using this Ex.

Killing of Ferdinand=World War I=World War II and so on

Anyone?

Answer 1

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was not so much the cause of the Great War, but the excuse. The central powers of Germany and Austro Hungary looked at Russia and Balkans respectively as neighbours whose weakness could be exploited for their own territorial plans. Germany in particular wanted a war of expansion, and had been rearming for it from the dismissal of Bismarck by Wihelm II.

When the war did occur, however, it began with Austria invading Serbia. This was because Austria had designs on both sides of the Adriatic coast, and those ambitions involved Italy on the allied side. The Ottoman Empire, nominally the rulers of the entire Middle East, saw the conflict as a chance to regain their lost hegemony in the Balkans, and to attack their old enemy Russia. That Britain and France would eventually prevail did not seem likely in far off Istanbul.

When the Armistice finally came in November 1918 the Turks had lost their entire empire, with the Middle East being divided between the British and French as protectorates. Many, such as the Saudis, were awarded their independence as a reward for fighting the Turks, but the British continued the Palestine mandate until 1948, when the United nations created the State of Israel, and the remainder was absorbed by Jordan.

By then the return of the Jews to their ancestral homeland had become a flood. What started with the pogroms of the mid 1800s was naturally multiplied as the survivors of the Nazi genocide fled Europe. Since Jewish cultural traditions and democratic government were anathema to the ruling mullahs, there was naturally resistance to the influx of nonpassive Muslims.

That would be the link, if one exists. Franz Ferdinand was an excuse, however. The war had almost started in 1908, over Morrocco, and would have come sooner or later.

Answer 2

The killing @ WTC and Pentagon = War In Iraq

You could try to parallel Ferdinand as an innocent bystander to the victims @ WTC and Pentagon.

I think it is a longshot, but that is the only comparison I can see.

Answer 3

I doubt it if you can compare on historical period with another. The background is different, the players are different,
situation is different. Outcome? Who knows, no one can predict the outcome of the current situation in the Middle East but that being a cause for WW3? ????? Personally, I do not believe it, or I hope not :)

Answer 4

It would be an interesting theory, but I don't think there's a way to prove it (someone would find a way, I'm sure)