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Nick Shepley

The Paris Peace Conference 1919

In six months, from December 1918 to May 1919, the fate of the world was decided by a small group of statesmen and diplomats in Paris. The First World War had left behind a chaotic legacy of new nations, collapsed empires and the question of how Germany should be punished. This eBook is the first in a new series called 'Study Essentials', which takes complex historical events and makes them accessible and easy to understand for students of all experience and abilities. If you are studying inter war diplomacy for the first time, this eBook is the perfect introduction to the Paris Peace Conference. It includes:

* A short history of the First World War * An overview of the victorious powers
* An overview of the defeated powers
* The history of European empires after the war
* The historiography of the Paris Peace Conference
* Advice on how to answer essay questions
54 printed pages
Publication year
2015
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  • Volodymyr Arievhas quoted5 years ago
    Lloyd George believed that Wilson appeared to the conference as a high minded idealist and Clemenceau as an aggressive French nationalist. He said: “I think I did as well as might be expected, seated as I was between Jesus Christ and Napoleon Bonaparte.”
  • Volodymyr Arievhas quoted5 years ago
    he also feared the possibility that Germany might fall to communism as Russia had if it could not economically revive itself quickly.
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