
World War Civ 14b: Anglo-German Naval Race pt2 – The Dreadnoughts
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
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The Role of Naval Power in World War I
There's a whole historical industry after World War I. The Germans saw this coming and started their own historical industry saying it wasn't us, it was everybody. So there are hundreds of sources you can read that are all, you know, following the national line. And then you have the Treaty of Versailles, which was very punitive. They lost territory. Germany lost its colonies and so on. In order to justify the punishment, the Allies turned it into an industry where they all wrote histories blaming Germany. Now, who is to blame? Is Germany to blame or is England to blame? Whether it's the naval race or the outbreak of World War I in general, we have this
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