HIST 1F95 Lecture Notes - Georges Clemenceau
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Outline: the wages of war, the winners, the peace. The human cost of the great war was 10 millions dead, with twice as many wounded. European map had to be reordered after the mostly continental war was over (primarily fought in europe). Britain still seemed supreme, but the rest of european countries would be forever altered. The countries that were once world creditors were now debtees . Austro-hungary and ottoman empire broke into smaller nation states. By early 1919, allies met at versailles to construct a peace contract. Headed by woodrow wilson (who dismissed old diplomacy). He envisioned a peace without victors or vanquished . He wanted a treaty based on equity and fairness. He wanted countries to be able to rule themselves, and not by an empire. He wanted to dispose of arms races, colonial systems and secret alliances.
