HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oswald Spengler, United States Senate, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Now i am become death : global war and genocide. Wwii: the very basic facts: global warfare between 1939 and 1945, between 60 and 68 million people killed, fought between the axis and the allied powers, genocide and war crimes, a new kind of war franklin roosevelt. Ominous prophecies: marshall foch"s: (france) he was involved in the peace process of the treaty of versailles. He was unhappy with the sanctions against germany and believed it was inadequate and he called it not a peace process but an armistice for 20 years. He was off by just a few months. He also made all kinds of interesting prophecies. In the same book he talks about a time when people will not have to climb stairs (escalator) he talked about a time where people would talk on phones without wires (cellphones) and everyone thought he was crazy.
