it will be for the benefit of all mankind. >> it was a global trust of the catastrophe. that century was really quite peaceful. he had a crimean war franco-prussian war and it was our civil war were to end war, i have to talk a long time to discuss wilson's hopes for a non-vindictive piece to talk about the chances that he might have had had he played his cards better and had strategic leverage to commit the british to pre- commit them to a non- convicted piece. he blew it in my opinion many, many times over. but the war in the view of some left of center people, these autocratic regimes brought down these oppressive dynasties and

now the people having fun of people's war were ushered in democracy. well, no. i'm afraid not. it didn't lead directly to nazi germany, no. but the vindictive piece 1919 created a weimar republic. so weak. suffering so many economic troubles. things especially after the onset of the great depression with the germans needing us bank loans to fund the reparations payments and after the chain reaction from wall street spread to our banking sector and a lot of loans got yanked, skyrocketing unemployment in germany in 1930 in 1933 the rise of hitler was relentless. it led to modern totalitarianism and this hideous 2nd world war

monstrous is the 1st one was from a dwarfed by the monstrous the so the 2nd one. the 1st one faded in american memory for good reason. it was a horrendous catastrophe. >> rather take them because that this, world war i, the beginning of information warfare certainly the beginning of government manipulation the systematic government manipulation of journalists in the country and even trying to think of something . like the four minute men where they took them to movie theaters and mastered the idea that someone would talk for four minu tes during the changing of the reels. it is expected what social media

does today. it goes to places where people are being entertained to give them the message issue want them to get. so in that sense, i think, from the point of view of people who are journalists and care about information and news, it changed the game. >> and that is an awfully good place to stop at the national press club. i want to thank our wonderful panelists here. admiral samuel cox professor richard strine are, and -- striner and jack. this has been great, and i thank you all for coming, and we stand adjourned. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3

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