S01E03: WWI: The Wrong Turn and How a Backstreet in Sarajevo Rewrote the American Century

History Chats with Dr. S. · Jul 5, 2026 · 29m

Episode Title: The Wrong Turn, America,

Wilson, and the Making of World War One

Episode Description: A wrong turn on a

Sarajevo street. A president who never wanted

to touch foreign policy. A war that reinvented

what a battlefield could look like. This episode

traces the deep causes of World War One,

America’s slow and reluctant slide from

neutrality into war, Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen

Points and the peace that followed, and the

technologies, artillery, trenches, tanks, and

submarines, that made this war unlike any that

came before it.

Keywords / Tags: World War One, WWI causes,

Woodrow…