Ep. 1445 Versailles: The Treaty That Shaped the Twentieth Century

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It's been 100 years since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. That treaty had a profound impact -- entirely for ill -- on the course of the twentieth century. Historian Hunt Tooley joins me to assess the damage.

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0:24.6	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. We are at just about approximately, maybe I'm a few days late, but approximately the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which helped to make the 20th century
0:38.3	what it was for better or more likely for worse. Very, very important and momentous event,
0:44.3	so I thought this is an opportune moment to discuss it. And who better to discuss it with
0:48.2	than our old friend Hunt Tully, who is an expert on this. You should be reading his book
0:53.5	The Great War, Western Front and Home Front. It's an expert on this. You should be reading his book, The Great War, Western Front and
0:56.0	Home Front. It's just perfect on this. Hunt is a professor of history and chair of the Department
1:00.9	of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Hunt, welcome back. Thanks very much, Tom. Glad to be here.
1:08.0	Let's talk about the Treaty of Versailles. Here we are approximately 100 years later.
1:13.2	And I've been talking to you about World War I for five years now because we did some, we covered it when we covered the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of the war.
1:24.5	And then we talked about the end of the war.
1:26.3	And now we've got the peace. Now, obviously, everybody knows the standard story of the Treaty of Versailles,
1:33.1	and I think the standard story, in this case, is more or less correct for a change.
1:37.6	The story that, in fact, even John Maynard Keynes told about a Carthaginian dictated peace.
1:43.9	Exactly, yes.
1:44.8	So can you start off by, first of all, telling us who are the powers that are sitting at that negotiating table?
1:51.5	And secondly, what is it that's different about the way they, I don't even know if the word negotiated is the correct word, the way they worked out this piece as opposed to the way,
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