039 You Are All Wrong

The History of the Twentieth Century

Mark Painter

History

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🗓️ 17 July 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Entente Cordiale smoothed relations between Britain and France, but created complications for Britain's relations with Russia and with Germany. Britain makes overtures toward both of those countries, in the hope of repeating its diplomatic success with France, but these early overtures do not go so well.

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0:00.0	On April 8th, 1904, Liberal MP David Lloyd George visited the former Liberal Prime Minister and current curmudgeon, Lord Roseberry.
0:30.3	The Entente Cordial had been announced that very day, and Roseberry greeted Lloyd George by saying,
0:36.7	Well, I suppose you are just as pleased as the rest of them with this French agreement.
0:42.5	Lloyd George assured him that he was.
0:45.5	Roseberry replied,
0:47.4	You are all wrong.
0:49.0	It will mean more with Germany in the end.
0:52.6	Welcome to the history of the 20th century.
0:56.7	The World Episode 39, You are all wrong.
1:24.7	When we discussed the diplomatic developments leading to the Entente Cordial, I mentioned that
1:30.3	French diplomats saw an opening when they noticed the British public's hostility toward Germany
1:35.3	during the 1902 Venezuela crisis.
1:38.3	Today I want to look at the international consequences of the Entente, but first I think
1:43.3	we should circle back and talk
1:44.9	about how we got to this place, where public opinion, and a good bit of official opinion in
1:50.5	Britain, is growing increasingly hostile to Germany. To tell that story, I need to introduce you
1:57.0	to Admiral Alfred von Terpitz. Alfred Pader Friedrich Tirpitz was born in 1849 in what was then Prussia and is today Poland.
2:09.3	He was the son of a lawyer who enlisted as a naval cadet in the Prussian Navy when he was 16 years old
2:15.1	because that's what his best friend did, and when you're 16, that's
2:18.9	what you do, you follow your best friend. He made a career of the Navy, first the Prussian Navy,
2:25.4	and then the Imperial German Navy. Strangely enough, he doesn't seem to have been in a romantic
2:31.1	about the sea, like many naval men. Later in life, he owned a house
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