HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Weimar Coalition, Weimar Constitution, Dawes Plan
28 Mar 2014
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Lecture 14 versailles, wiemar, fascism: european experiments. The allies attempt to rebuild europe in 1918. Versailles is a laboratory sitting atop a vast graveyard. Ppc is a reworking of the concert of europe and the first meeting since 1815. Goal to implement liberal democracy and national self determination on a mass scale. Way to affect change by ideology: create new nation states by nationalities, new liberal constitutions, strict penalties against germany. Seemed to meet long term and short term goals. Good cooperation against socialist/communist revolution by creating buffer states. A stable europe through political guarantee and minority rights. These ideas created a new international system of. Collective security by the covenant of the league of nations: created by woodrow wilson in the fourteen points, concept of international law and conference diplomacy as opposed to war. New states were created in eastern europe, but this just created new minorities.
