AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Central Powers, Warren G. Harding
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Major participants at the paris peace conference: america, britain, france. Non-participants: russia, germany, austria, ottoman empire. Would allow groups with a high degree of ethnic cohesion to form their own countries and to determine their own type of government. Wants a league of nations to preserve global peace and punish those who break international laws. This becomes the league of nations: british. A lot of valuable natural resources being discovered there at this time: the italians. Take territory away from austria: the french. Territorial expansion in the middle east and africa. Reparations- huge payments of $ to the allies to compensate for financial losses during wwi. Disarmament- did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)y to ha(cid:448)e the (cid:373)ilitary (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity to go to war again/invade: force germany to scale down military forces. Treaty of versailles: central powers lose significant amounts of territory. Germany loses african territories and some others to the allied powers. Ottoman empire (turkey) loses what is now syria, iraq, lebanon, and palestine.
