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From YouTube: War Against War: Fight for Peace 1914 -1918

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A brief clip from Michael Kazin's talk about his book, War Against War: The American Fight for Peace 1914-18. The book unfolds the untold story that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War, and the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting one of history's most destructive wars. Recorded at the Arlington Central Library in January 2018.

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The Arlington Public Library is hosting an ongoing series of author talks commemorating the centennial of World War one last month, Michael cousin, discussed and read from his new book war against war, the American fight for peace, the.

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United States became, as was all to the war, the most prosperous nation in the world. In fact, the capital of the Twain of the 20th century, but Wilson's great hopes that there would be a peace without victory, that there would be a very effective World Federation of Nations, the League of Nations there to be self-determination for nations within empires.

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That's the harmonious, peaceful democratic world that the peace movement wanted to would come to pass. Well. We know that didn't happen. What happened, of course, 20 years later, was a much worse. Much greater war will were one kill about seventeen million people, world war, two killed, 50 million people, Wilson went to Paris 1919 as a great hero, because it was great idea, let's take purposes that he spoke for, but the peace treaty he signed in Paris was not ratified by the Senate.

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He had a stroke in Colorado as he was speaking for ratification, the peace treaty and, as many you probably know, he was an invalid of the rest of his term in office, even though most Americans didn't know that so the terrible irony to conclude I hate to include on a sad note, but is that the United States choice to intervene in World War one may have made the next war world war two a far bloody, a global conflict, more likely.

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The historian john Coogan puts it this way. It was the genius of Woodrow Wilson, which recognized that a lasting peace must be a peace for that victory. It was a tragedy of Woodrow Wilson than his own on neutrality would be a major factor in bringing about the decisive Allied victory that made a healing piece impossible.

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Michael cousins talk was recorded in its entirety and can be seen on Arlington Virginia television, on cable and on the web at youtube.com, backslash arlington, county.