Who Really Sparked the First World War: Assassin or Protector?
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Shawn and Susie join me as we try to figure out who actually deserves the heavy weight champion title of starting World War One. It's not exactly a title that any one wants or deserves, but someone has to be responsible! If you're even a little interested in history then this episode is for you. Who doesn't love a story about love and assassination? Why does a lonely young man, who had difficulty with women, get inspired to murder for love of country? Press play to find out.
-Gavrilo Princip, Frank Ferdinand, Oskar Potiorek
Chapters
1. Who Really Sparked the First World War: Assassin or Protector? (00:00:00)
2. Recalling Mufasa episode (00:01:20)
3. Background to the Balkans (00:02:41)
4. Intro to Oskar Potiorek (00:04:20)
5. Role of Ottoman Empire (00:07:02)
6. Intro to a young Gavrilo Princip (00:09:35)
7. A changing world, an unstable world (00:12:45)
8. Princip goes to Belgrade (00:16:10)
9. Intro to Franz Ferdinand (00:19:57)
10. Craig wants a time machine (00:21:42)
11. Ferdinand and Sophie in love (00:22:52)
12. The assassination (00:27:15)
13. Potiorek’s terrible decision (00:34:29)
14. The accomplices are rounded up and tried in court (00:38:20)
15. Post war Yugoslavia (00:40:04)
16. Shawn’s experience in Bosnia (00:40:45)
17. Outro (00:43:28)
4 episodes