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• ‟ Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French.

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• ‟ Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.

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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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• ‟ Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.

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• ‟ It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the world's nations have also been spared the scourge of civil wars, although many have known violence from revolutionary insurrection.

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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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• ‟ History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.

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• ‟ Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.

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• ‟ The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.

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• ‟ The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.

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• ‟ It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

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