At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, a young economist named John Maynard Keynes saw what few others could, that the Treaty of Versailles was not peace, but a blueprint for another war. This History Shorts episode explores how Keynes's warnings about crushing reparations and economic despair predicted the rise of extremism and the outbreak of World War II. It's the story of the man who foresaw the next global catastrophe before the ink on the first had even dried.

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