{"id":10758,"date":"2017-11-28T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:47:25","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-part-i-the-second-world-wars-with-victor-davis-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge-part-i-the-second-world-wars-with-victor-davis-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge Part I: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"806\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EUELed7UuDQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>How were the Axis powers able to instigate the most lethal conflict in human history? Find out in part one of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/part-i-second-world-wars-victor-davis-hanson\">episode<\/a> as Victor Davis Hanson, joins Peter Robinson on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/publications\/uncommon-knowledge\"><em>Uncommon Knowledge<\/em><\/a> to discuss his latest book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/books\/the-second-world-wars-how-the-first-global-conflict-was-fought-and-won\/\"><em>The Second World Wars<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson explains how World War II initially began in 1939 as a multitude of isolated border blitzkriegs that Germany continued to win. In 1941, everything changed when Germany invaded their ally, the Soviet Union, and brought Japan into the war. He argues that because of the disparate nature of World War II, it\u2019s much harder to think about as a monolithic conflict.<\/p>\n<p>World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history with approximately sixty million people killed. Victor Davis Hanson argues that World War II and the many lives lost was preventable, but due to a series of missteps by the Allied forces, Germany believed they were stronger and their enemies weaker than the reality. He argues \u201cit took Soviet collusion, American indifference or isolation, and British or French appeasement in the\u00a030s\u201d to convince Germany that they had the military capabilities to invade western Europe. In the aftermath of World War I, the allies believed the cost of the Great War had been too high, while Germany bragged about their defeat as no enemy soldiers had set foot on German soil.\u00a0 Great Britain and France both chose appeasement over deterrence, which encouraged rather than discouraged<a>\u00a0<\/a>Hitler and Germany from moving forward with their plans.<\/p>\n<p>This video was originally published by the Hoover Institution. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/part-i-second-world-wars-victor-davis-hanson\">Click here to learn more about this episode.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How were the Axis powers able to instigate the most lethal conflict in human history? Find out in part one of this episode as Victor Davis Hanson, joins Peter Robinson on\u00a0Uncommon Knowledge to discuss his latest book,\u00a0The Second World Wars. Victor Davis Hanson explains how World War II initially began in 1939 as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Nw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10812,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge-part-2-the-second-world-wars-with-victor-davis-hanson\/","url_meta":{"origin":10758,"position":0},"title":"Uncommon Knowledge Part 2: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This video was originally published by the Hoover Institution. 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