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OK....so here is something that really bothers me about history. How the hell did Franz Ferdinand die in the assassination in Sarajevo? there are just SO MANY coincidental actions that led to this killing. It SHOULD have failed, by all means I just feel like it SHOULD have been a failure. Either the assassin chooses to eat lunch at a different place, the driver takes a different wrong turn, or the Archduke deciding not to go to the hospital to visit the wounded....


So what would have happened if Ferdinand, by whatever POD, survives. I definitely feel that World War 1 probably would have still happened. The tensions in Europe were just too high that some other event wouldn't have set them off. There were plenty events that could have set it off before the assassination anyways, I.E. the Morocco Crisis. I think the first effects you'd see would be on Austria herself. I can't find much information on this, so excuse me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Ferdinand a supported of the "United States of Greater Austria?" Maybe he puts this plan into effect and quells most nationalist sentiment within the state. Not sure how that would effect the rest of Europe though.

Anyone have any thoughts?
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