HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Paris Peace Conference, 1919
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The paris peace conference, 1919 parts one and two. Fundamentally unfair caricatures of the actual characters at the peace conference (with the way they reacted, etc) Clemenceau was not quite the rigid champion of internal france (on franco-german relations) that he was seen. Woodrow wilson survived the keynesian he was an idealist he believed in consequences for international criminality. The most unfair and inaccurate of the portraits painted by the critics of versailles was that of david. Lloyd-george (far from humiliating the germans, etc) he was in many ways the primary architect of the moderation and compromises. When the german delegates presented the treaty (june 1919) told to accept it or expect a renewal of the hostilities they wanted this altered. Even wilson found the german initial refusal incomprehensible. Today, they are still declaring that it is not they who caused the war this attitude is unbelievable .