The Versailles settlement : peacemaking in Paris, 1919

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The Versailles settlement : peacemaking in Paris, 1919

Alan Sharp

(The making of the 20th century / series editor, Geoffrey Warner)

Macmillan Education, 1991

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [222]-230

Includes index

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Volume

ISBN 9780333421390

Description

Seeks to explain how the peacemakers of World War I saw their task and how they hoped to achieve their ends.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The old world falls apart: shifting balance of power
  • nationalism, imperialism and alliances
  • outbreak of war
  • war aims and wartime developments
  • collapse of the central powers
  • Wilson's programme for world peace
  • pre-armistice agreement
  • armistice. Part 2 The Paris Peace Conference: Council of Ten
  • Council of Four. Part 3 The League of Nations: origins
  • wartime developments
  • Parisian proposals
  • drafting the covenant. Part 4 Reparations: reparations or indemnity?
  • British demand for an indemnity
  • French policy reviewed
  • Commission on the Reparation of Damage
  • origins of the "War Guilt" clause
  • central points of debate
  • reparations in the Council of Four
  • reparations settlement
  • reactions to the draft proposals
  • reparations in perspective. Part 5 The German settlement: Alsace-Lorraine
  • the Rhineland
  • the Saar
  • Belgium
  • Schleswig
  • Poland
  • the Sudetenland and Austria
  • Memel
  • German disarmament
  • "Hanging the Kaiser"
  • results. Part 6 The Eastern European Settlement: the Balkans - Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania
  • Eastern and Central Europe - Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Russia
  • national self-determination, plebiscites & minority protection. Part 7 The colonial, Near and Middle Eastern Settlements: the Mandate System
  • Germany's colonies in Africa and Asia
  • collapse of Ottoman power
  • peace settlement in the Near East
  • from Versailles to Sevres
  • from Sevres to Lausanne
  • wartime developments in the Middle East
  • the Middle East at the Conference - Syria, Palestine
  • from Versailles to San Remo.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780333421406

Description

Seeks to explain how the peacemakers of World War I saw their task and how they hoped to achieve their ends.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The old world falls apart: shifting balance of power
  • nationalism, imperialism and alliances
  • outbreak of war
  • war aims and wartime developments
  • collapse of the central powers
  • Wilson's programme for world peace
  • pre-armistice agreement
  • armistice. Part 2 The Paris Peace Conference: Council of Ten
  • Council of Four. Part 3 The League of Nations: origins
  • wartime developments
  • Parisian proposals
  • drafting the covenant. Part 4 Reparations: reparations or indemnity?
  • British demand for an indemnity
  • French policy reviewed
  • Commission on the Reparation of Damage
  • origins of the "War Guilt" clause
  • central points of debate
  • reparations in the Council of Four
  • reparations settlement
  • reactions to the draft proposals
  • reparations in perspective. Part 5 The German settlement: Alsace-Lorraine
  • the Rhineland
  • the Saar
  • Belgium
  • Schleswig
  • Poland
  • the Sudetenland and Austria
  • Memel
  • German disarmament
  • "Hanging the Kaiser"
  • results. Part 6 The Eastern European Settlement: the Balkans - Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania
  • Eastern and Central Europe - Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Russia
  • national self-determination, plebiscites and minority protection. Part 7 The colonial, Near and Middle Eastern Settlements: the Mandate System
  • Germany's colonies in Africa and Asia
  • collapse of Ottoman power
  • peace settlement in the Near East
  • from Versailles to Sevres
  • from Sevres to Lausanne
  • wartime developments in the Middle East
  • the Middle East at the Conference - Syria, Palestine
  • from Versailles to San Remo.

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