HIS242H1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - The End of the War & the Paris Peace Conference
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The bolshevik seizure of power, october 25, 1917. The bolsheviks remove russia from the war, make a separate peace with germany: the treaty of brest-litovsk, march 1918. German war aims in general: the september program, 1914: the war ends in the west. Germans sue for peace on the basis of woodrow wilson"s fourteen points: the fourteen points. Speech made by us president woodrow wilson to the us congress, january 1918. Sets out the guidelines for a general peace. The league of nations: the paris peace conference, january-june 1919. Legal protection for national minorities in international law (1878) Under the jurisdiction of the league of nations. Pluses and minuses -- largest problem: no mechanism to punish states that do not comply. League shows itself unwilling to punish states for violations of the treaties y 1917 -> provisional government being attacked from both the left and the right y 97 million peasants in countryside.
