He Kept Us Out of War
On 6 April 1917, the US declared war on Germany. Wilson had been re-elected five months earlier on a promise of neutrality. He won. Then he changed his mind. The 20th century was shaped in that gap.
Treaty of Versailles
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Forty-Eight Years in the Hall of Mirrors
On 18 January 1871, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. On 18 January 1919, the Paris Peace Conference opened in the same city. Between those two dates lived the full arc of German power — born in a defeated enemy's palace, ended in the same city by men determined to make sure it never happened again.