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Issued also as Publication 2757 of the U.S. Dept. of State, under title: Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, v. 13. ; Seal of Department of State, United States of America, on t.p. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Signed in 1919 between Germany and the Allied Powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Controversial from the very beginning, the treaty still shapes the destinies of societies and states worldwide. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George said It is all a great pity. We shall have to do the same thing all over again in twenty-five years at three times the cost, and French Marshal Ferdinand Foch declared that "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years." At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses of peacemaking after the First World War, the future of colonialism, and the emerging threat of Bolshevism. A century after its signing, we can gain new perspectives on the treaty and its impacts by looking at how those histories evolved through the remainder of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The author of several award-winning books, Michael Neiberg provides a clear and authoritative account of the Treaty of Versailles, explaining the enormous challenges of trying to put the world back together after the global destruction of the First World War. He shows how the treaty affected not only Europe but also the rest of the world. In China, the Allied decision to give the Shantung Peninsula to Japan led to a wave of protests known today as the May Fourth movement, which is seen as a foundational moment in the modern history of China. Global disillusionment with the treaty led to mass transnational movements that helped to set the foundations for Cold War debates about anti-colonialism. American rejection of the treaty also served as a mirror and a prism for American fears and ambiguities about its own international role. The treaty is, therefore, much more than its role in ending the First World War."--

Intro -- Title Pages -- Contents -- Preface -- Grzegorz Kucharczyk: The Treaty of Versailles: The Polish and the German perspective -- Michael S. Neiberg: Playing With Wolves: Woodrow Wilson, the United States, and Poland, 1917-1919 -- Vittoria Calabrò: The new European political order after 1919: the Italian context -- Michał Kuź: The Treaty of Versailles and the American Vision of a Nation-based World Order -- Gennadiy Matveev, Ellena Matveeva: Peace conference in Paris 1919: A view from Moscow -- Dušan Kováč: Die Transformation der slowakischen Gesellschaft im neu geordneten Europa nach 1918 -- Deona Çali: The Albanian migration colony of Turkey in defense of the national cause in 1919 -- Miloš Řezník: Ethnic-Regional Movements and their Strategies in the Context of the Paris Conferences: Ladins, Kashubians and Sorbs -- Marek Kornat: Treaties and international agreements on the protection of national and religious minorities as an element of the peace order after WWI. The Case of Poland -- Ralph Schattkowsky: Deutschland und Polen im Schatten von Versailles. Bemerkungen zu den deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. -- Małgorzata Gmurczyk-Wrońska: The Versailles order from the French perspective. Has France won the victory? -- Dariusz Makiłła: Danzig. The Crucial Point of International Relations in Post-Versailles Order (1919-1939) -- Krzysztof Rak: Józef Piłsudski and the policy to maintain the European status quo 1926-1935 -- Wojciech Morawski: The problem of war reparations -- Lothar Höbelt: Austria, the Anschluss and the Entente: How to Make Money from Oppression -- List of contributors.

This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions and constraints that informed decision-making by the French, American and English politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement. It also addresses German reactions to the draft treaty and the final agreement, as well as Germany's role in the immediate postwar period. The findings call attention to diverging peace aims within the American and Allied camps and underscore the degree to which the negotiators themselves considered the Versailles Treaty a work in progress. A detailed examination of the proceedings from the point of view of the main protagonists forms the core of the investigation

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