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September/October 2001

Vol.4, No. 8

Contents

The Coming Intervention in the Middle East
by Darris McNeely

Restoration
by Darris McNeely

A 20th Century Retrospective:The Shot Still Reverberating Around the World
by Melvin Rhodes

Partitioning Morality
by Cecil E. Maranville

In Brief... World News Review
by Cecil Maranville, Melvin Rhodes, John Ross Schroeder and Jim Tuck

This Is the Way... Just Outside My Window
by Robin Webber

A 20th Century Retrospective:
The Shot Still Reverberating Around the World

With this issue we begin a new series covering important events and trends of the last century which have shaped our new century. First, what was the most significant event of the past 100 years?

by Melvin Rhodes

What was the most significant date of the 20th century? Surely June 28, 1914, must be it-the day on which the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, together with his wife, in the city of Sarajevo.
Five weeks later the world was at war.

Almost a century later, the negative consequences of that awful event are still being felt, not just in the Balkans, but around the world.

The world war that started with a single shot on a hot summer's day led within a few short years to the collapse of the continental European empires-the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian. Soon after their fall, the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire fell. The victorious British and French empires lasted longer, but fell as a direct consequence of the Second World War, which in itself was a direct consequence of the First World War.

And almost all the wars since, those that have been fought and those that are being fought, as well as those still to come, can trace their origins back to Sarajevo.

Prior to that fateful day in 1914, there was little sign that this would be the fate of the 20th century. In 1913 the Romanovs celebrated the tercentenary (300th-year anniversary) of their dynasty, traveling throughout the Russian empire, basking in the adulation of millions of their subjects. The Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, gave up all hopes of revolution. Four years later, most of their subjects were glad to see the Romanovs go.

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