102 - The Alliances and the Assassination (and Airplanes)

You know, we had an assassination last episode, too, didn’t we?  Well, this one is going to cause a lot more difficulty for the world, especially for Europe.  Things are about to get really crazy.  The first 45 years of the 1900’s were just an amazing, crazy time to be alive.  Someone born in 1900 would have been alive for two world wars, the Great Depression, the invention of nuclear weapons, the cold war, and if they had lived to be 70 years old, they would have seen the first moon landing.  What an amazing time to be alive.  If you survived.But before we can get to all that, we have to talk about a couple of other things first, including the tensions that are about to cause several huge wars.  We need to talk about the crazy web of alliances that crisscrossed Europe that are going to lead to the first world war.  But even before that, we have to talk about one of the most important inventions in all of human history.  No, I’m not talking about the invention of podcasting, not yet anyway.  I’m talking about - the Wright Brothers, human flight, and the invention of the airplane. Website:  shortwalkthroughhistory.comemail:  [email protected]