What if?... by Fábio Fonseca

Fábio L. Fonseca

2^nd Secondary Education

Writing

What if World War I hadn’t happened?

History happens in past, present and future, so can one affect other? Many things have happened until nowadays, that’s what we know. The wars areaggressive conflicts that have happened, and still to happen, they have changed the world in many ways. These wars included the one of the most important wars, which involved powerful countries; it included the World War I.

In June 1914, a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia. All different type of occurrences followed the incident, leading by August to the World War I, which involved so called Central Powers against the Allied Powers. The four years of the Great Warsaw bizarre levels of bloodshed and destruction, thanks to bloody warfare and the introduction of modern technology and weaponry such as tanks, chemical weapons, blood banks, x-ray machines and much more.

The causes of this war started with an assassination, but what if Archduke Franz of Austria, who was heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, hadn’t been assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. Then the tenuous peace between Europe’s great powers wouldn’t have collapsed.Then the World War I wouldn't have happened, and so much hatred wouldn't have been passed on, and less people would have died.But would we have evolve that much; would we have the idea of making many useful things, such as the blood bank and x-ray machines?What if, WWI has not only been the war to end all wars, but also the beginning of many military and civilian technologies?

What if WWI has shaped the modern world that we are living in?Was it the worst war of all time, or wouldthere come another?Do the wars bring more good or bad results, are these balanced?Is that what some the ones who survived these murderous battles could be thinking?

Unfortunately it was one of the worst wars, which lead to much death, economic losses and destruction. It also affected the world in many ways. Nevertheless, wars have good effects, and WWIbrought about good effects, as well. Such as the advance and creation of modern technology that changed the world, and correction to terrible injustices. Although wars can have too many bad impacts, it can also have numerous favorable impacts.