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... for the Week of May 22, 2000
... for the Week of May 15, 2000
The march of death has come to an end. After nearly 500 years of conflict, progress and rivalry, Europe itself had become the Balkans, a powder keg ready to explode. Driven by an aggressive German desire for a place in the sun, the Great War represents the cumulative effect of revolution, militarism, nationalism and imperialism. The alliances will prove to be only the rope from which Europe will hang itself. When the Belgians hold their own for six weeks in the fall of 1914, the Schliefen Plan is exchanged for spades, and the men begin to dig; Some would argue, their own graves. In this industrial war, shells tower over men and bullets reign like fire. The dead pile up in France as ships hit the ocean floor in the Pacific, another victim of the German U-Boats. But within one month in the early spring of 1917, the Russians, sick of war, and plagued by starvation, revolt, settling their war with Germany, and setting up France and Britain for annihilation. But the German dream would be spoiled by the arrival of the Americans, who, inspired by a sunken ship and threatening telegram, turn the tide that remained even since the very first shots were fired across the Marne. But in the end, disaster. The treaty signed at Versailles is not President Wilson ideal plan for peace; but a stage for dictatorship and foundation for another war.
"Over There" - The U.S. Enters the War
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