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The Smell of War

This is an introduction to a war waiting to happen and shows the conditions and events leading to the spark that set off the Great War. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the spark, but the powder keg consisted of Balkan nationalism threatening the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ententes and alliances that bound nations to one another, the threatened upsets to the balance of power, imperialist rivalries and industrial competition, and a dizzying accumulation of armaments in search of someone to set them off. Art and music mirror the disjointedness of the age. (20 minutes, b&w)



 
    

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The Feudal System
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This program covers the social and economic organization of Europe in the Middle Ages: life in a medieval farming hamlet; the role of the feudal lord, whose role was to defend its inhabitants in return for a share of the produce and other tribute; th...(more details)
 
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World War I
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From the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo to the delegates signing the Versailles Treaty, this program covers the events that set off the war and the war itself: the German invasion of Belgium; the Battle of the Marne, of Ypres, Verdun, the Somme...(more details)
 
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How the Nazis Came to Power
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This program shows how simple and logical it all was-one step at a time, from the bitter defeat of World War I and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, the wrangling of the Weimar democracy, the economic crisis... Then the fear of Communism, the thr...(more details)
 
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World War I: The War That Failed to End Wars
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In 1914, the participants thought it would be a short war, to be fought on the order of Austerlitz with charging cavalry, the battle lasting an afternoon. But that's not the way it turned out, and when the war was over, so was the world from which it...(more details)
 
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Stalemate
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The war that the Germans thought would teach their enemies a lesson taught one to the German side as well: that the world of cavalry charges and Romantic posturing was over; in place of victory, there was stalemate and disillusion. Trench warfare was...(more details)
 
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