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Followed another four years of carnage. Weve got time for one or two more calls. The symposium resumes at 1 00. We can siad jens members start to trickle in behind you. Marvin in ann arbor, michigan. Good morning, marvin. Hi. I was wondering why you dont put more blame upon the germans for the war on the western front when the germans were preparing for war for about a dozen years and using a pretext to invade france. You would assume that the germans would require more blame than the french. Well thank you for the question, marvin. Youre absolutely right the germans had been preparing for war for not simply 12 years but even longer than that. The problem with many accounts of the outbreak of the First World War, however, is they focused only on one power or possibly two. If you look on the other side of the lens youll see france and russia signed a military alliance in 1894 specifically targeting germany, the terms of which stipulated that france and russia were supposed to invade ger
From the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia, where the world war i centennial symposium is on its lunch break. Until they return were joined by Sean Mcmeekin, author of july 1914 countdown to war. Mr. Mcmeekin appreciate you joining us on American History tv. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here. A century since world war i, there continues to be a debate about which nation was responsible for the start of the First World War. Take us back to america in 1914. 1915, 1916. Was that debate about who was responsible taking place in the United States at that time . It was not necessarily the most important question in u. S. Politics. I think probably for the Woodrow Wilson administration, the key thing was to keep the United States out of the war. I think certainly if there had been a different president in the white house, possibly theodore roosevelt, might have taken a different line. He was quite clear about the fact in 1914 that i think he saw the germans as, if not ne
Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here. A century since world war i, there continues to be a debate about which nation was responsible for the start of the First World War. Take us back to america in 1914. 1915, 1916. Was that debate about who was responsible taking place in the United States at that time . It was not necessarily the most important question in u. S. Politics. I think probably for the Woodrow Wilson administration, the key thing was to keep the United States out of the war. I think certainly if there had been a different president in the white house, possibly theodore roosevelt, might have taken a different line. He was quite clear about the fact in 1914 that i think he saw the germans as, if not necessarily to blame for the war, then certainly a greater threat for the United States than the entente powers, france, britain and russia. As far as 1916, again once again Woodrow Wilson was running for office, in part on the pledge of keeping the United States ou
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