WW2: The Great Imperial War
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The History of Empires and the Second World War
In the late nineteenth century, all european powers were good at creating kind of pantasy empire in their minds. Most people in europe didn't go to the empi, never saw it, ad not interested much in the empire. It was seen as n important way of defining you as a great power. And it was misguided, because in the end, the cost for the european Powers was endless expenses,. In the end, too. Wwas te sentence ers for war. The pursuit of territorial empire was now anactionistic and the damage it did was enormous.
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