History 2145A/B Lecture Notes - Sonderweg, Totalitarianism, Military Elite
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Versailles and its malcontents: the paris peace settlement and its consequences. In what ways did the paris peace conference represent six months that changed the world never had the world leaders been together for so long, stayed together for six months, redrew the map of europe. Did the paris peace conference = basis for a lasting peace or a twenty year truce . Was the treaty of versailles excessively punitive, thus setting the stage for the rise of. Was it the main factor; excessively punishes germany nazis claim that the treaty was majorly oppressive. Structure and conjuncture; causes and events structure is long term, conjuncture is catalyst events. No other country will face the same chain of unfortunate events that would ultimately lead to the rise of german power (nazi regime) everything in germany"s history leads to nazism. The immediate consequences of the first world war is that it unleashed the totalitarian demons.