Sleepwalking into a dystopia that would had made Aldous Huxley and George Orwell to blush falls into the interesting arena.
This has happened for thousands of years.
Yes, but I am currently not aware of any pre WW2 events.
Typo (not "pre"-> "after"). I am not aware of any case where a nation state openly assasinated the leader of another state in the more recent human affairs till WW2. I know of the attempts towards Castro, but apart from that?