1) “The Marshall plan was to rearm Germany and our occupied zones…” – Do you have any backup for this assertion? My own research yields nothing. Are you aware that most of the aid went to Allied nations? The UK received 3 times the aid as did Germany.
1) “The Marshall plan was to rearm Germany and our occupied zones…” – Do you have any backup for this assertion? My own research yields nothing. Are you aware that most of the aid went to Allied nations? The UK received 3 times the aid as did Germany.
2) “Then there’s Ireland.” What do you mean?
3) “Not to mention Versailles was a sideshow at the time of Hitler coming to power.” Not true.
Hitler did not become Chancellor until 1933. Until then he was a noisy activist without office or power.
4) “…Versailles’s defects were more 1-2 years of uncertainty all over the defeated lands while Wilson and the Americans conducted a full academic review of the countries.” – Not true.
Wilson’s “14 Points” analysis was commissioned in 1917 and completed before the German government sent a message on Oct 5, 1918 requesting an armistice based on the 14 Points. The Armistice was signed on Nov 11, 1918. The Paris Peace Conference commenced on Jan 18, 1919 and ended June 28, with the Treaty effective Jan 10, 1920. The German government was well aware of the direction of the negotiations and didn’t have to wait until Jan 1920 (or even June 1919) to find out.
5) “Reconstruction in the South- which initially dissolved State governments and didn’t replace them…” – Absolutely untrue.
The state governments were not “dissolved.” Reconstruction laws required those governments to take certain actions to be re-admitted to the Union. The Confederacy was under martial law based on war powers, but the State governments continued to exist.
6) Since the State governments WANTED slavery, how did their supposed dissolution prompt “the rise of chaos, vigilantism, the Klan?”
7) “Sherman rearming the Confederate soldiers already marching home” – Again, do you have any backup for this assertion? My own research yields nothing.
John- I don’t have time to reconstruct my research, aka reading history.
All my points I’ll stand by.
However Sherman: Solder Realist Patriot by BHL Hart may yield some info, and the source for Versailles (and Ireland in part) can be found by a critical as opposed to credulous reading of Churchill “ The World Crisis.”
1) “The Marshall plan was to rearm Germany and our occupied zones…” – Do you have any backup for this assertion? My own research yields nothing. Are you aware that most of the aid went to Allied nations? The UK received 3 times the aid as did Germany.
2) “Then there’s Ireland.” What do you mean?
3) “Not to mention Versailles was a sideshow at the time of Hitler coming to power.” Not true.
Hitler did not become Chancellor until 1933. Until then he was a noisy activist without office or power.
4) “…Versailles’s defects were more 1-2 years of uncertainty all over the defeated lands while Wilson and the Americans conducted a full academic review of the countries.” – Not true.
Wilson’s “14 Points” analysis was commissioned in 1917 and completed before the German government sent a message on Oct 5, 1918 requesting an armistice based on the 14 Points. The Armistice was signed on Nov 11, 1918. The Paris Peace Conference commenced on Jan 18, 1919 and ended June 28, with the Treaty effective Jan 10, 1920. The German government was well aware of the direction of the negotiations and didn’t have to wait until Jan 1920 (or even June 1919) to find out.
5) “Reconstruction in the South- which initially dissolved State governments and didn’t replace them…” – Absolutely untrue.
The state governments were not “dissolved.” Reconstruction laws required those governments to take certain actions to be re-admitted to the Union. The Confederacy was under martial law based on war powers, but the State governments continued to exist.
6) Since the State governments WANTED slavery, how did their supposed dissolution prompt “the rise of chaos, vigilantism, the Klan?”
7) “Sherman rearming the Confederate soldiers already marching home” – Again, do you have any backup for this assertion? My own research yields nothing.
John- I don’t have time to reconstruct my research, aka reading history.
All my points I’ll stand by.
However Sherman: Solder Realist Patriot by BHL Hart may yield some info, and the source for Versailles (and Ireland in part) can be found by a critical as opposed to credulous reading of Churchill “ The World Crisis.”
Academic this and me are not...