HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Wage War, Central Powers
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Chapter 2: the peace of paris and the new international order. Purposes: to repair the political and economic fabric of half of the world, to ensure against any recurrence of the organized violence. Reality of peace treaties: whatever decisions that were made simply reflect the great powers" interested in protecting what they claimed to be theirs. This is mostly apparent from how they redistribute the territory, resources, and populations of the regions previously controlled by the defeated powers. The powers that join the peace treaty are usually powers that managed to win in their wars. The french were mostly inferior of the germans. Their 2 unnegotiable terms: 1) to remove forever the menace of german military aggression in europe. To obtain financial assistance for the restoration of the territory in northeastern. Slogans associated to wilson: the war to end all wars, and the war to make the world safe for democracy.
