The Redrawing
How the collapse of three empires stitched new borders — and left the fault lines that still fracture the map today.
24 lectures14 hrs1914 — 1923
Event cascade
How one event spilled into the next
1914
The guns of August ignite
Alliances pull four empires into a single, continental war.
1918
Four empires dissolve
Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian order collapse together.
1923
Treaties redraw the map
From Versailles (1919) to Lausanne (1923), treaties carve states from fragments of empires.
Today
Borders still hold tension
The 1919 lines remain flashpoints a century later.
Sources · further reading
Where this comes from
- Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 (2001)
- David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace (1989)
- Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers (2012)
Dates marked by tradition or legend are given as approximate.
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