00:00Two bullets fired by a teenager ended 20 million lives.
00:04It's 1914. Europe is a powder keg.
00:07Empires hate each other. Arms races explode.
00:11Alliances are locked. All that's missing is a spark.
00:15June 28th, 1914. Sarajevo.
00:18Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
00:22rides through the streets in an open car.
00:25No bulletproof glass. No real security.
00:28A bomb is thrown. It misses. Explodes behind the car.
00:32The attackers panic. The motorcade escapes.
00:36Everyone thinks it's over. But fate intervenes.
00:39The driver takes a wrong turn. The car stalls.
00:44By pure accident, it stops directly in front of Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old nationalist.
00:51Princip steps forward. Raises his pistol. Files two shots.
00:56One hits Franz Ferdinand. The other hits his wife, Sophie.
01:00Both die within minutes.
01:02Austria blames Serbia. Russia mobilizes.
01:05Germany declares war. France follows.
01:09Britain enters.
01:10In weeks, the world is at war.
01:13Four empires collapse.
01:1420 million are dead.
01:16Another 21 million wounded.
01:18Trenches. Gas.
01:20Genocide.
01:21All from two bullets.
01:23The war wasn't started by nations.
01:26It was started by a moment that no one stopped.
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