Victory and the Making of Peace: the Allies in the First World War | LSE Online Event

Historian Margaret MacMillan delivered the second Engelsberg Chair lecture of 2021/22 on alliances and war. #LSEEngelsberg
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Speaker:
🔴 Professor Margaret MacMillan
Chair:
🔴 Professor N. Piers Ludlow
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[@RobertReg1]

Love listening to MM!

[@vic_ee]

Some say an allied march on Berlin would have prevented the stab in the back theory, as it would have made clear that the German army had in fact been defeated in France and that it wasn't simply inside forces that sued for peace.

[@brucevilla]

Thanks for Uploading.

[@Doodloper]

You are welcome

[@Silvertestrun]

Ty

[@hiltonroberts8742]

"Treaty of Versailles" where the side that won, lost and the side that lost, won??

[@jynxkizs]

I appreciate the more thorough explanation about how reparations actually played out.

[@garypowell1540]

In my opinion, the world was either wittingly or unwittingly betrayed by the USA. The British had a long-held policy of not seeking direct world dominance but more of preventing any other from gaining sufficient domination to become a threat to their system of trading and financial control, especially in Europe. This policy was then taken up by the USA from the time that they became involved in WWI. The USA also considered the UK to be in competition with them as well as France Russia and Germany. Wilson considered that leaving Europe in a state of some kind of balance was useful to the interests of the USA as well as the trading and financial system set up by the British. Therefore he was anxious to make peace with the Germans rather than see the war through to Berlin. If the Allies had this would have left both France and Britain far too dominant in the region for their liking and further purposes. This also explains why the Americans held back after the invasion of France during 1944 and 45 leaving Berlin to the Soviets. Indeed agreements were made with Stalin to divide Europe just as it was before the invasion of Normany even took place. I have little doubt that Churchill was fully aware of what the Americans were trying to achieve but could do little about it. The Germans were surrendering all over France before the Soviets had even entered Germany. Allied forces were even offered a deal by many German generals so they could avoid being overrun by the Soviets from the East, but these were refused. Thus we ended up with the Cold War which suited the Americans just fine for many decades. We had a chance to end the possibility of large-scale wars forever, TWICE, but we blew them both Big Time and settled for very expensive stalemates, largely thanks to the Americans.

[@Kavala76]

Establishment groomed and establishment approved.

[@Hoireabard]

Did the flu pandemic play a role in ending the war?

[@BB-vq2zv]

VIVA ORBÁN VIKTOR PRIMEMINISTER ! VIVA HUNGARIA !!!

[@joeoconnor5400]

Great Britain's sole interest during the First World War was Empire, specifically India. Churchill was obsessed that India should never be given independence. Belgium was not high on Britain's priorities.