Sorry do not agree I believe it was mostly france that wanted that Treaty
Today is the 100 year anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles. America’s late entry into World War I created such an imbalance of power that the victors could impose terrible terms on Germany. Without America, a just peace could have been negotiated - preventing Hitler and Mao.
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The European powers had been in a stalemate for four years. Without American intervention, everyone would’ve just given up and gone back home. No World War II.
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I disagree, after Russia backed down on the Eastern front and Germany shipped backed all their divisions to the west and south they could have widen the captured territory in France and Italy. Maybe not a complete takeover but the land captured would be enough to start ww2.
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Winnie the Pooh anybody know where he came from canadian to core
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I don’t think so. From what I understand the US was pushing for lighter punishment. France was the country spearheading the harsh punishment for Germany.
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That’s not the point. Without our blundering into that useless war the Allies and Central Powers would’ve fought themselves to exhaustion. Then there likely would’ve been a negotiated settlement.
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Okay, I see the point now. Thanks for clarifying.
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How the hell could anyone have predicted that outcome at the time? This is classic 20-20
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The point is that intervention has unintended consequences
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Yep. I believe the American entry into WWI was the biggest foreign policy error of the 20th century.
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I think Briton should have stayed out too
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Could they have pulled it off without American intervention? French negotiators thought that the treaty was too lenient as it was.
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Might as well just say, if there was no ww1 then there never would have been a ww2 so we should have just stopped ww1. This line of argument could be taken back to the beginning of time. Really, no evolution of humans, no wars started by humans. That settles that.
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Without American entry, all of France, Germany, and Britain would have been 'bled white'. America, fully industrialized and untouched by war, unconcerned, would have needed another impetus to hegemony, and might have never had it.
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Without America to end the war they might still be fighting in those trenches. Many factors could be tweaked to derail the rise of Hitler. Prolonging ww1 and perhaps Germany wins hardly seems like the best historical revisionist solution. Mao rose due to moles in US State dept.
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Woodrow Wilson was a Progressive—in some ways the archetype for all future Progressives. The world still suffers under the paradigm he helped to create. Hopefully it will end soon.
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Another factor was the self-fulfilling prophecy that the Keynesian analysis set in motion, and which conferred a kind of legitimacy on Germany's rejection of Versailles. It's ironic that
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Well, Versailles put many traditional German communities under Slav rule, including in the Sudetenland, Upper Silesia, and the Polish Corridor. Certainly Hitler made much political use of that situation, knowing that many in the West had now taken a dim view of Versailles.
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