“None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life—a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began to rearm.” — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life—a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The Russian delegation, led by Maxim Litvinov, proposed complete and immediate disarmament for everybody; this was rejected out of hand as a Bolshevik trick.” — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by the convoluted… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“In 1932, a commission of the League of Nations produced a preparatory draft for a general scheme of disarmament. The proposal, however, left untouched… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“So beautiful was that summer that those who survived it invested it with a golden haze; it assumed a retrospective poignancy, as if before… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Britain and France, honoring their pledge to Poland made earlier in the year, declared war on Germany on September 3. The war lasted nearly… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
