Two global wars in the space of a single generation reshaped borders, toppled empires, and killed tens of millions — remaking the modern world.
Stop 01 · 1914 CE
Europe's Armed Peace
By 1914, Europe was divided into rival alliances and swollen with empires — German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, British, and French — bristling with new industrial weapons. A single assassination in Sarajevo would be enough to set the whole system alight.