The butterfly effect in action: 5 real cases that changed the course of history

Sometimes a slight and seemingly meaningless decision can change everything. Some of the most significant historical moments in the past depended from such solutions. One move, one word or one wrong turn can cause a chain of events that changes the course of history.

1. Bar fight that led to Brexit

When Britain voted to leave the European Union, the world was discouraged. Yet it all began in a small London pub called the Stranger's. It was there in 2012, an MP from the labour party Eric Joyce got drunk and let his fists. Over the fact that the Deputy was arrested, and his seat in Parliament was taken by another labour MP.

2. The Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand

Actually, that's what the murder was the beginning of the First world war. And this would not have happened if the driver of the Archduke checked the map. He had a bad day, and in Sarajevo, he was met by unfriendly. First, the bomb went off, but a little earlier, killing the environment of the Archduke. He probably had to take this as a sign that it's time to go home, but Ferdinand decided to visit the wounded in the hospital. However, his driver, unfamiliar with the route, made a mistake and turned the car on the street where the cafe was Gavrilo Princip, who has not missed the moment and shot the Archduke.

3. An error of the press Secretary brought down the Berlin wall

And all of this happened because the Communist günter Schabowski made a mistake. On 9 November 1989, he was handed a document with information about a new entry system. In the interim, the East Germans planned to give the right to visit West Berlin permissions. However, not everything was spelled out clearly, because Schabowski announced the information is ambiguous. The Germans decided to cross the border only on passports and anytime. When one of the reporters asked when the new rule took effect, Schabowski looked at the document and not finding the answer, said, "Immediately." People immediately stormed the wall and smashed it brick by brick.

4. An act of mercy, a British soldier led to the Second world war

In 1918, Henry Tandy fought in France. Once he decided to spare a soldier — and it killed over 60 million people. At the battle of Marconne the Germans began to take positions. Tandy took aim at the fleeing Germans, but this man was injured, and he couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger, because it allowed German soldiers to leave, and he even nodded to him in thanks. Henry's face Tandy later appeared in propaganda posters, and twenty years later, this British poster appeared in a country house of Adolf Hitler.

When Neville Chamberlain visited Hitler and saw a poster on the wall, he was asked the reason for his appearance. Hitler replied: "This is the man who almost shot me." The story is so incredible that you can doubt its authenticity, however, there is compelling evidence. There is a letter from the assistant Hitler, written in 1937, thanks for sending the poster for the führer. As it turned out, Hitler was very interested in things connected with his own military experience.

5. A member of the city Council killed the dog and gave birth to modern terrorism

In 1933, a member of the city Council of Texas Charles Hazzard killed the neighbor's dog, who regularly went to the toilet on his bed. Hazard just slipped over the dog's food with crushed glass. Lost dog belonged to a 13-year-old Charlie Wilson, and the teenager swore revenge. The boy walked around and told everyone that a member of the city Council did to his dog, and the resulting hazard lost the next election.

So Charlie Wilson for the first time changed the policy. He grew up and became a representative of the Congress, and when the Afghan war with intervention, Wilson changed history. He campaigned for U.S. assistance to Afghans, to turn the tide of war, which won the Afghan Mujahideen. Thus was formed the "Taliban" and "al-Qaeda" and there was Osama bin Laden. Began the modern era of terrorism. And all because of one member of the city Council killed the dog.