![World War I against a faded background of soldiers in a trench in France](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2023-02/ww1-why-sn.jpg?itok=UsrkVd21)
Air Date
November 9, 2023
The statistics quoted are documented in Chapter 6 of BP and the Redline Agreement. The $180 billion is 1918 dollars, or about $3.6 trillion as of June 2023.
Notes from Woodrow Wilson’s speech after the League of Nations treaty failed ratification.