The Death of One Man Started The Slow Death of The West

On June 28th, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo were assassinated. The death of a single man led to World War 1, where millions of European men were slaughtered for virtually no reason. The mishandling of the aftermath of the Great War gave rise to the Third Reich, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy, which wreaked havoc across the globe. In the ashes of these wars, the children of the robber barons served as the phoenix who reconstructed the world through the money they gained from the sales of munitions paid for through the blood of fathers and sons. Oswald Spanger wrote "The Decline of the West" in 1922 in the aftermath of WWI. He argued that the West was bringing about its own destruction because the Western man was a proud but tragic figure. The audio might be a little messed up, so I apologize for that. I'm still new at editing things myself.