Displaying Episode 21 - 27 of 27 in total of The Year That Was with the tag “1919”.
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A Gladiator's Gesture: Art after the Great War
September 24th, 2019 | Season 1 | 42 mins 46 secs
1919, american history, art history, dada, european history, return to order, season 1, surrealism, world history
In 1919, two competing art movements went head-to-head in Paris. One was The Return to Order, a movement about purity and harmony. The other was Dada, a movement about chaos and destruction. Their collision would change the trajectory of Western art.
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Incident at Chelyabinsk: The Russian Revolution and Conflict in Eastern Europe, Part I
September 24th, 2019 | Season 1 | 47 mins 51 secs
1919, czech history, czechoslovak legion, european history, history, russian history, russian revolution, season 1, tsar nicholas, world war i
One of the strangest conflicts of the Great War happened 1000 miles east of Moscow between two units of Czech and Hungarian former POWs. What these troops were doing on the edge of Siberia is a fascinating tale of ethnic resentments, self-determination, and unintended consequences.
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Bring in the Germans: The Fate of the Losers at the Paris Peace Conference
September 17th, 2019 | Season 1 | 49 mins 28 secs
1919, austria, germany, hungary, paris peace conference, season 1, treaty of versailles, world war i
The most important task at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference was the drafting of peace terms for the losers of the war. Germany and Austria assumed Woodrow Wilson would insist on a fair, respectful compromise peace based on the Fourteen Points. So they were shocked when the Treaty of Versailles demanded territory, demilitarization, and reparations. Is this what caused World War II?
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Burdened with Glorious Purpose: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations
September 10th, 2019 | Season 1 | 37 mins 54 secs
1919, american history, episode 2, league of nations, paris peace conference, season 1, woodrow wilson, world history
Woodrow Wilson believed he and he alone could end war--forever. His plan for the League of Nations would usher in an era of eternal peace. So it really hurt the president's feelings when not everyone agreed with his vision.
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Our Fathers Lied: The Origins of World War I
September 5th, 2019 | Season 1 | 37 mins 46 secs
1919, american history, bonus episode, kaiser wilhelm ii, season 1, woodrow wilson, world history, world war i
In August 1914, the world's most powerful nations stumbled into the most devastating war the world had ever known. But why? We examine the origins of the Great War as if it were a bar fight--an analogy that makes more sense than you might imagine.
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1919: A Time of Hope or a Time of Dread?
September 3rd, 2019 | Season 1 | 29 mins 40 secs
1919, canadian history, season 1, w.b. yeats, world history, world war i
Welcome to the Year That Was podcast, and welcome to the year 1919. It was time of enormous hope for some--the Great War had ended and there was a whole new world waiting to be build. But others saw nothing ahead but more violence, disease, hunger and fear. Who was right?
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Welcome to The Year That Was
August 12th, 2019 | Season 1 | 18 mins 2 secs
1919, american history, season 1, world history
We think of history as a series of individual events--but really, history happens everywhere, all at once, at the same time. Welcome to The Year That Was, the podcast that looks history as it was really experienced, one year at time. We're starting with 1919, a year of peace and war, disease and discovery, hope and anxiety.