I have been obsessed since I was young with generational events: single events that have a major domino effect over a whole generation.
We are talking about a single moment that people of a generation will remember as the first major event which re-shaped the world of their parents into their own.
At the begining of the century, the Assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand was one such event: The world had been escalating in a militarized build-up and over-complexifying alliances and that build-up over a whole generation unwound at that particular moment which kicked off The Great Was (we now know ...