Consequences Quote by Michael Korda

“In April, 1926, France and the United States finally negotiated a war debt settlement at forty cents on the dollar. The [French] budget was…

— Liaquat Ahamed

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although…

— Edward Herrmann

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The…

— Monica Crowley

“Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question…

— Tony Judt

In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built…

— Charles Duhigg

“In the Hundred Years’ War that dragged France and England through the 14th century, both sides would have liked to quit but could not,…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…

— Milton Mayer

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost…

— Gustav Stresemann

“Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany’s military objectives in Europe. That year Germany…

— Paul Ham

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

— Niall Ferguson

France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces…

— Emmanuel Macron