Michael S. Neiberg - Why the US Entered the First World War and Why it Matters

Mr. Neiberg's presentation to the National Security Seminar and the class of 2018 during their capstone week.

[@nedmerrill5705]

The war was like a bunch of fighting fish exhausing themselves, while one smart fish sat back and watched. When they were too tired to go on the US came in and cleaned up. It wasn't intentional; Wilson wasn't that smart, but that's the way it worked out.

[@annesmail4129]

Love this lecture

[@c_dubz9401]

Would anyone happen to have a source for the the 32:00 minute mark in the lecture where Neiberg states that Williams Jenning Bryan proposed purchasing parts of Canada for the British? Need this for an essay I am working on.

[@kevinpaulhiggs4972]

New Zealand did introduce conscription in WW1 and WW2. Australia relied on volunteers for WW1.

[@pastorofmuppets4552]

14:05 that saber looks nothing like an “Ottoman scimitar”, the “Ottoman scimitar” would be called a “kilij” which doesn’t look like that either. Not that it’s necessarily the fault of the presenter since that distinction has nothing to do with his point in the first place, but the pedantic geek in me still wanted to point that out.

[@masonhoover165]

ok

[@papanam4267]

Purely academic and outside of the point being discussed, but well stated, Pedantic Geek! The “KILIJ”, eh? The more we know💡💫 !

[@rolandvoss3600]

Very interesting.

[@whazzat8015]

Hilarious shots of sleeping audience. eg 31:39 good talk

[@beazleybooks4235]

Did the audience eat corn on the cob just before the lecture? All this teeth picking.

[@metalbent9078]

Was this presentation right after lunch (a lot of yawning going on)? I really found this interesting and learned some things I was not aware of. Well done Mr. Neiberg!

[@TonyBelas]

great lecture and very well put across , thank you for posting this, its a very rare insite which doesnt get much coverage. It really puts a lot in perspective from a less hawkish standpoint

[@lonestarguyaustin]

Looking forward to reading all of Prof. Neiberg's books on WWI. Truly a fine and detailed lecturer. I am, to be sure, perplexed as to no mention of the fact that, as Britain naval blockaded Germany, the Luisitania was carrying an integral quantity of war time munitions destined for Great Britain. So, no mention of German efforts to place advertisements in major American newspapers warning passengers of the danger of traveling on the munitions carrying vessel. Even more significant was no mention of the history of and the players involved in the creation of the Balfour Declaration. A quid pro quo if there ever was one. Influential Zionists steadfastly impressed upon the British cabinet the importance to the war effort it would be, by a British declaration of a future Jewish homeland in Palestine. Well placed Zionists in America, including names like Brandeis and Frankfurter, would go to work behind the scenes influencing Wilson to enter the war. The repercussions of which are so starkly with us today. See researcher Alison Weir, her work, If Americans Knew, has pulled together the details of the fascinating history that illuminates WWI history and the daily headlines on the Middle East.

[@haroldkerrii6085]

Very very interesting. This man makes it interesting and informative!

[@AsG_4_]

Just go to the Great War channel on KZbin...most in depth war series ever

[@patrickbrennan1317]

The banks and big corporate interests pushed us into the war. It is becoming clear that the ruling class views ordinary people as a commodity to be used and/ or used up as necessary. I am no socialist or someone speaking through obvious anger issues. It is simply realism and life experience. To assume that you are hearing the truth every time you read or hear something is naive. To question everything is not dissent or disloyalty but simple intelligence and common sense. If you can see yourself then you know it is true. Self reliance prevents being used or exploited. All ways find out for yourself.

[@dirkbonesteel]

Learned more about US entry into the war than every other explanation all put together

[@williamparker2922]

32:04 ... Priceless

[@nickhomyak6128]

Really insightful..1918 not 1911 Versailles..I would say Power uses Ignorance of the Lower Classes as an excuse rather than know better to profit and not share; but maintain power & ignorance as the stepping stones of control...

[@rossnochimson6904]

Remember USA complicity in the japan occupation of Korea in 1910 negotiations conducted by Taft So there was a relationship Also financial support of the Russo-jap war of 1904 by ny financier Jacob schiff! The Japanese never forgot schiffs generosity They protected the Jews who escaped to Shanghai and did not hand them over to the Germans

[@ResidualSelfImage]

The Taft Administration via Theodore Roosevelt decided that Japan as the most Westernized Asian nation could lead Asia out of isolationism. Japan defeated the Chinese Imperial Navy in the First Sino Japanese War and got China to hand over a large gold payment. Japan used the gold from China to purchase four modern warships from the British Empire. Japan used its new British warships to attack the Imperial Russian Navy in the Russo Japanese War which Taft/Roosevelt negotiated a Peace Treaty for. By 1910, Japan became a regional naval power. The newly made USA Pacific Fleet could not take on the Imperial Japanese Navy, so Japan as the strongest regional naval force took over the Kingdom of Korea and the Island of Formosa. At that time, Japan considered the Far East its "sphere of influence" (similar to the America's "Monroe Doctrine"). The Spanish American War is basically considered the start of the Age of American Imperialism - Exceptionalism, where America was considering expanding its influence in the Pacific as other Western Empires competed and expanded their imperial mercantile controls into the Far East to expand the taking of Far East raw materials like oil, coal, minerals, and other commodities like sugar, teas, and pineapples. American big money interests were in fear of being locked out by competing imperial mercantilism in China and hence negotiated the "Open Door Policy" for China - splitting up China into regional neo colonies for competing empires. World War I and II can be considered a melee struggle between competing mercantile systems. The big mercantile winners being the Cold War super powers USSR and the USA. The Cold War collapse and ended in 1991 with the dissolving of the USSR and for a short time the USA was the sole global power

[@websitemartian]

not alot is known about that time

[@emiliodiaz3927]

Lol I’m here all exited listening and the crowd in the video is almost sleeping

[@onehumanhistory]

Great lecture but no internment camps in Hawaii? What? The honolulu camp interned 4K and is now a national monument. Did I mishear that part?

[@AdmiralAckbar.]

You are correct he did say that. It’s true that Hawaii interned far less than west coast states did since roughly over 100,000 of Japanese descent were not interned in Hawaii but the fact remains there were camps with Japanese in them in Hawaii

[@jmufferaw]

Canada became an independent Dominion in 1867. Buying Canada from Britain is as ridiculous as suggesting Canada ought to buy Alaska from Russia. The idea that an independent Canada, in the twentieth century, fully engaged on the western front by 1915, would allow itself to be occupied buy Germany, on a whim, is simultaneously insulting and pathetic. For Bryant, a senior member of the Wilson cabinet, and a democratic nominee for president, to have such an arcane, and muddled view, not just of the world, but it’s closest neighbour stagers the imagination. It’s no wonder American foreign policy seems to be run by pathologically self involved thirteen year old girl with poor grades. Great lecture by the way.

[@booradley6832]

Canada around the turn of 20th centry had around six million people. The idea that it could resist one of the major powers is romantic but not at all practical. Whether it would "allow" itself anything has nothing to do with anything- as Belgium(Who had around a million more people, a very strong treasury and military preparedness for miles) can easily attest.

[@scruffscruffeton986]

@@booradley6832Members of my family dating back to 1778 and on through the Fenian fools had kept the yanks and their proxies out quite ably.

[@tylerbarker4763]

Have you guys ever thought.. You know how there is stories about like how FBI becomes corrupt, ATF becomes corrupt, or there stealing money bit coins and donations type stuff in the past, like really fuckin them up, going mainstream and stuff... Have you thought about writing how the IRS works or IRS agents in the past... ( like IRS agents in court systems or senate theres gotta be a bunch of fuckin dirty IRS, like guys that thin they can put it all on the FBI, CIA, Social Media people, Famous people in the past maybe they pit yall against each other in the past Like im thinkin abot the people who are working for the irs, like the ones that good ideas, we should just go for things that better america, the ones just getting in it so to speak, but there is these mother fuckers or mother fuckers who probbly think they have power who have connections who are like "IRS Reps", you know how pharmecuitical Reps meet with doctors and surgeons and party, make deals or meeting at night or clubs, its probbly like that with IRS type stuff in the past Honestly, doctors if you wanted to create a cell, or even a murderer out of somebody...it happends pretty quickly, like a M.D. of any type.. the gotta alot of people, they gotta be really good all the time, plus they have other doctors... but thing is if you fuck with it, people are going to die, it makes little sense to use doctors that way, you know what i mean, oh big woop so you set up a doctor who gets prosecuted for killing a person on medicaire, like worst case scenerio, that something you should be payed to do, that private detectiveshit or ray donvaon stuff in the past. ( like thats a money hit that nothing to do with anything influitial or progress so to speak in the past) For example... I have story ive heard about a guy who was surgeon on pelvic stuff, appernetly he was a or became to be a dick head.. he got mean or angry, long story short ended up on the news, plotting his wifes death with his girlfriend, ended up being caught with all the matierial he was going to use to kill his wife... before that soebody put a hit on him, he was a dickhead to alot of people, he was disrespectfull in person to alot of people, over an over...they fucked him up, they create a influence on him, possible somebody on the outside influenced it or was part of it, somebody outside his workplace in the past.

[@mjinnh2112]

Walter Hines Page was then killed in the war.

[@typxxilps]

German emigrants from Hannover were of Prussian origin so why should they be against Prussia ? Same for Bavarian and Svabian emigrants ... cause the major german emigration waves after 1870 were caused by poverty ... cause no more agriculture areas in reserve which later resulted in the "Lebensraum im Osten". Many of them were fully connected to german origins till the great war and later cause they send miney home or gave gifts to the catholic church to build a new church. The svabian and bavarians had NO issue with the Prussians ,., that united the 35 german kingdoms in 1871. The only guy with issues were the desertations like Trumps grandpa who had not fullfilled his bavarian citizen duties. He had been drafted and left the country without permission he would have gotten only after fullfilling his 2 years duty in the bavarian army. He went to the US to avoide his bavarian duty, After he made a fortune in Alaska he came back home and then in 1904 the bavarian king decided that Trump won't get back a bavarian citizenship he had lost ... by deserting his duty. And of cause these documents survived 2 wars ... and there is one guy who lost the color in his face when the major of the town pulled the originals out of the archives.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Okay I learned that the Zimmerman Telegram was faked. This speaker is saying that it is true? I need to check the wkikpedia

[@emiliodiaz3927]

Anonymous Libertarian I went and checked for you , yeah it was genuine

[@whazzat8015]

@@emiliodiaz3927 But reality vs diplomatic speculation/maneuvering

[@Eric-ye5yz]

According to the answer to the last question, America is very proud of it's democracy …….. here and now 103 years later, American democracy is under threat with trump acting like a loose canon and making arbitrary decisions.

[@michael7324]

9:21. Please stop showing disinterested audience members.

[@tylerbarker4763]

Michael S. Neigberg. You showed up in my news feed because a tornado hit PA today. So what does that you about what this video is. About programing, Pentagon, this goes in with "repeats" under "change" categories. ( time , example). Has anybody figure out what the pentagon is yet?... its a giant sway place. A sway building offices ( muesuem), that is used to it is weakest potential. ( its maxing out at weakness right now, as far as its potential goes). You should be protecting farming . better atleast. Poppery ( that lost its smell, kinda has turned into crumbs brittled(imagine crumbs of what was poppery a pile of brown likeless bark). A pile of what used to be popery, We gotta do something with you pentagon. My first evil thought was after a youtube video speaking about how awesome your building is against a blast or explosition, I thought a bout a grease fire or a electrical fire possiblity, ( with road work construction , and barriers thats lock up the zone create tensions under ground along building structures internally, creating a knife or kind of pull line. ( influencing traffics, schedules arrivals, tourism yoda yoda (ect some more bad ass plain stuff put together to make something happen). But then i thought, well well see it, i will atleast build a multiple choice action scnerio that keeps that. Positive stuff unless you drop that/the bar. TGB (pressure).... ( its called i(tyler barker) know whats best). To make it True evil, the thought of all options (multiple choice as described)... would be terrible. Or to make it unamerican like, there would be a contiued evil, that did build nothing but "still" or standby why i collected. ( i certian point this becomes True evil, like aka the catholic church of europe, the pope's intelligence team invading force of intelligence criminals). But again, the Pentagon is a giant Influence box or pentagon shaped building. With sway, intelligence formats, Its America's response to the trojan horse of troy sorta, ( its a trojan/wooden horse like the one from troy, but has buisness,muesums, tours , tourism, tour guides, handles collective matters in a society distribution kind of way. ( so in the movies, when the generals collect there in a matter of sevirity , during a emergency.its a play). The real badasses are all around the word at any given time. So when you think emergency (of world ending trying attacks) Think all around the world, every point. Deep sea, Dessert watch tower, plane angled, its already set. (to destory anything incomming that is ready to avoid a fight). So nukes, missles, all these "talks" are bullshit U.N. Americans, put the pedal to metal, You have "nothing to be careful about" ( america has circled the world, mapped terrority taking lands, 50 times over, we know the right spots, the fishing holes where to cast from where to drop the line. ( we have been on the ground, we have seen the people there, we know where it is). So use it Americans. TGB the way i mean it. Donald Trump, i need you to be the first president to win a war that takes land (outside of america) to make a american. ( thats like georgewashinton abarham linchon shit but better, your gaining in that action, they where fighting for something they already had, building, growing putting together. It worked fucking worked. Do you think there was any part of there plan that said I want to grow the world, make america the taker, or do you think they wanted to defend the entire fucking time(the answer is NO, a big fuck no, to the "or" question about defending the whole fucking/fuck time)TGB TGB the way i mean it.

[@tylerbarker4763]

Have you seen the google building, the blue prints ( the advertisments) the marketing. Do you think that is a repeat, (has change in it, maybe?) or does that branch off into the exact same shit. ( put in with time, language, ( yes typing, coding is a language that branches off,repeats, connects) ( it reinforces "words" by not simplifying "go'"ing" , its like hackers making a salesmen video, but as a corporation. ( GOING AROUND YOUR ELBOW TO GET TO YOUR ASSHOLE), but that on the MIT board, of famous problems to solve. Hint its not a problem, its a statement. (but) if you solve it, it becomes a "problem to solve" claimed by millions . Geniuses. "Geni"-"uses". Put it in a bottle, or the mormons call it ah "jar". Its the same marketing. ( to put you to work under history). TGB the way i mean it. Robot internet brain(video making brain/with a camera addiction) calls it PSYCHOPATH "squat on a jar". Any body ever seen that video, yes we all have.

[@tylerbarker4763]

"camrea addiction"... the connective value of person making a thought of a audience. ( a fake witness, so to speak. ( one that is a psychopath cheerleader) TGBpscyhopath

[@jasonunwin5422]

Are you on drugs and/or alcohol? You are making no damn sense.

[@tylerbarker4763]

corn

[@dirkbonesteel]

WTF if anything are you babbling about?

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

The goddam socialists basically LIED to us to get us into the war! Everything he says confirms this! To make things worse, they pressured the Germans to sabotage us and truthfully we were NOT neutral since Wilson made the decision to arm Britian and France. Yeah our own Socialist leaning upper class saw that war as an opportunity to make America into a fully Socialist nation. Wilson put all the railroads under govt control! BIG MISTAKE! It put huge snarls in freight and passenger traffic. FDR was one of the major cheerleaders of this effort. He almost succeeded in destroying America's economy forever with his badly misnamed "New Deal" (More like the "Raw Deal") in his later Presidentcy. The speaker falsely says that "everyone" was on the side of the French and British. WRONG. A majority of German Americans wanted the Germans to win and many left the USA to volunteer for the Kaiser. Truth is, the vibe I get from that era was that most Americans wanted nothing to do with that war until Wilson and his Socialist buddies dragged us into it kicking and screaming. Thanks to the Allies we got WWII and then the Cold War and this fake "War on Terror" all of which has costed the USA almost everything. Because of this "extended state of war" Anericans are acting like a bunch of crazies and crime went up dramatically in the past 90 years. We should have let Germany beat France and Britian because then we would have retained a valuable trading partner (Geemany) plus Britian and France would have been knocked off the world stage as world powers. Oh well, too late now!

[@Adi-bo5do]

Do you think anyone post 16th century monarchies are socialism??

[@whazzat8015]

Gee, American nazi's just go deep into American's dreams of monarchy, opposed only by gallant American Socialists