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• ‟ Maintaining peace can be as strenuous as winning a war.

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• ‟ A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

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• ‟ I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, social structures, and so on - and the decisions that people have to make. At the heart of all these great decisions to go to war, there are human beings who have to say, 'Yes, let's do it,' or 'No, we won't do it.'

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• ‟ In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I - but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?

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• ‟ I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.

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• ‟ The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.

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• ‟ It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with the wider world.

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• ‟ American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.

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• ‟ By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe. Public opinion and, crucially, the cabinet was deeply divided on whether to intervene or stay out.

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