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When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Versailles Introduction Part 1/3

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

To make it through the tons of research material available on the Treaty of Versailles, it is essential we take a certain angle as our guide. Find out what kind of angle I am interested in, and how I plan to divide the different sections of this project up, so that you and I can get through it with our sanity maintained!


It's going to be a wild ride to 28th June, but before we reach those sumptuous halls (below), we first have to paint a picture, or series of pictures, that help us set the scene. As ever, context is our King, and it's time we got right down to it...

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0:00.0

Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for you.

0:18.0

To the end, it's the high ideals for which America stands may endure upon the earth.

0:30.5

I earnestly intrigued my countrymen to pause before they rush Hitler into this revolutionary change, which may well be irretrievable.

0:51.0

I know that it is hard for Americans to realize the magnitude of the war in which we are involved.

0:59.6

France and Italy, between them have made waste people of the treaty of their side and the whole sheen of international relationships

1:07.2

that in fairness confusion affairs to the world can be set straight

1:11.6

all about the permit

1:12.9

and most determined

1:14.4

exhibition of the will

1:15.7

and leave and make the right to avail.

1:18.9

We're here

1:20.4

because we're here,

1:22.8

because we're here,

1:25.0

because we're here.

1:26.9

Because we're here.

1:56.6

The because we're here, because we're here. You are listening to the Versailles Anniversary Project.

2:09.9

Introduction Part 1 The Treaty of Versailles and the Paris Peace Conference which housed it have together evoked arguably more debate than any other event in the 28th century

2:15.0

and certainly more than any other peace settlement.

2:18.2

Was the treaty fair and just, unfair and short-sighted, or was crafting a satisfactory,

2:24.2

long-term peace treaty in the aftermath of the First World War, an impossible task from the beginning?

2:31.3

The Great War, the First World War, or whatever you want to call it,

2:34.5

is in itself incredibly unique and complex. For our July crisis anniversary project, we learned

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