Versailles Introduction Part 2/3

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

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We must set the structure and sources of this project in front of you before we jump right into it, and we should also clarify our aims before we go any further too. We have got a LOT of ground to get into over the next eight months, but I hope that you are ready to join me for this fascinating and illuminating journey, as we examine this era of our past like you've never seen it before.

Of course it is worth setting forth our aims: 1) create the most comprehensive, but also the most accessible, account of the Treaty of Versailles in audio form. 2) investigate whether the Treaty really was so bad, or whether some redeeming features exist within it. 3) ascertain how responsible, if at all, the Treaty was for all the vile catastrophes that followed it in the 20th century.

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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 between their lives and the whole
1:05.3	chain of international relationships that in fairness confusion affairs to the world
1:10.0	can be set straight
1:11.6	all by the permit
1:12.9	and most determined
1:14.4	exhibition of the will to leave
1:16.2	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.
1:55.9	The because we're here, because we're here. You are listening to the Versailles Anniversary Project.
1:59.1	Introduction Part 2. Conducting a search of the Treaty of Versailles in Google throws up millions of results.
2:08.0	Switch the search to Google books and the results are even more impressive.
2:12.0	Maybe you're feeling still more adventurous though, and you decide to search in JSTOR,
2:16.4	that online depository of journals. Or maybe you're feeling insane and you decide to search in J-Store, that online depository of journals,
2:18.5	or maybe you're feeling insane, and you search Questia, that online depository of books,
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