World War I scholar responds to the question: Was World War One inevitable?

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Posted: Friday, April 10, 2015 12:00 pm

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Posted on Apr 10, 2015

by Alyson Schreck


Harper Auditorium filled Thursday evening as students, faculty and people from the community waited to hear Margaret MacMillan’s take on the highly debated question: Was World War I inevitable?

MacMillan, a World War I scholar and author of “The War that Ended Peace,” examined the world and Europe prior to 1914 and the possible reasons that led to World War I. In doing so, MacMillan made it clear that, in her opinion, World War I was not inevitable.

Prior to the war, MacMillan explained, Europe was in a time of prosperity.

“It was a period where there was some hope for the future,” MacMillan said. “There was hope that the world was becoming a more peaceful place. There was hope that progress of the 19th century, particularly in Europe, was going to continue. And hope that prosperity was going to increase around the world, and of course, in Europe.”

For this reason people today still wonder: How could Europe throw this away? And According to MacMillan, it is something they still have not recovered from.

Nine million men died in World War I and the map of Europe changed forever. However, according to MacMillian, at the end of the war nothing was settled and the world was not a more peaceful place.

MacMillan went on to assess the possible reasons behind why the war happened. Perhaps it was the tensions between the different alliances, or maybe there was competition for colonies. Some believe it was the responsibility of a single country, or the fault of ideas or honor. Perchance, some will argue it was no one’s fault and it simply just happened. After evaluating the motives which people think caused the war, MacMillan shared her own explanation.

“There is not one cause, and not one factor, and not one person, and not one country. I think it was, if I can think of an analogy, a perfect storm,” MacMillan said.

MacMillan discussed how the people of Europe thought that the war in some way would be a solution to many problems. It would clear the air. She expressed that this was a common metaphor used in Europe at the time: that when a thunderstorm is coming, and the air is very hot and sultry, sometimes people wish for the storm to come just to clear the air.

Arts & Sciences senior Rachel Thompson is writing a paper on World War I and the Sinking of the Lusitania for the culmination of her history degree. Thompson attended the event to hear whether or not MacMillan thought the war was inevitable.

“A lot of people say that with the climate of Europe at the brink of the war there was no chance that a war could not happen, but I would disagree with my research,” Thompson said. “I wanted to see what a highly praised professor had to say about that.”

The lecture ended with MacMillan responding to questions from audience members. Afterward, MacMillan was available to sign copies of her book.

The Department of History at Creighton hosted the lecture as part of the Ross Horning Lecture Series. Horning began teaching history at Creighton in 1964 and passed away in 2005. Since 2006, the department has hosted lectures such as this one in his memory.


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Albert Pike predicted three world wars

"The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the "agentur" (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions."
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"The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm." 3
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"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." 4

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Albert Pike & World War 3 - Islam vs Zionism

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This is an excerpt from the propaganda movie "Empire of the City: Ring of Power" and while it appears to be right on in many areas, it's another gnostic film which promotes the idea that Jesus wasn't who he said he was. It even suggests that Jesus Christ was possibly the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra or some such noise. The rest of the film explores the origin of the Vikings being the tribe of Dan, and other wild ideas.

Albert Pike's Letter to Mazzini (1871)

"The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the "agentur" (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions."

"The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm."

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion...We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."