For the past few centuries, Western Civilization has dominated the world both culturally and economically. Why? Some point to imperialism, slavery, and colonial wars. But those sins are common to all empires throughout history. What separates the West from the rest? Stanford historian Niall Ferguson has the answer in this highly informative video. More from PragerU.
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Harken back to the 1970s and Great Britain was wallowing in “The Winter of Discontent,” to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare. The inflation rate in 1975 was 27 percent, the trains were late and the phones were always broken. Nothing worked! To make things more miserable, there were strikes everywhere–strikes by coal miners, doctors, printers and even refuse collectors. Great Britain was a mess!
Enter Queen Warrior Margaret Thatcher. Beginning in 1979, when she entered 10 Downing Street as prime minister, and exited in 1990, she changed everything. Renowned historian Niall Ferguson details how Thatcher saved Great Britain and earned her reputation as one of the most important and influential leaders of the 20th century in this edition of PragerU.
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Author Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War examines what the world be like–especially the European Union–if Germany had been victorious in World War I. In his tome, Ferguson destroys many myths of the world’s first major conflict and asks many direct and impolite questions.
Political pundit Dick Morris says perhaps the major benefit of a German victory would have quashed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. “The stab in the back theory that animated Hitler’s rise to power was based on Germany losing World War I when it thought that it was on verge of winning it,” Morris says. “And that would not have taken place and Hitler would not have been propelled into power. Germany would not have had to pay huge reparations to the rest of the world and therefore would not have had mega-inflation, would not have had the economic collapse, and Hitler would not exist.”
Morris elaborates further in this educational edition of Dick Morris Reports.
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