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Ruth Henig's fully revised and extended second edition of Versailles and After includes a new chapter on recent historiography of the subject and provides students with concise coverage of the following topics:
* the terms of the Treaty of Versailles
* the inadeqacies of the League of Nations as a supranational peacekeeping body
* why hopes of long term stability gradually faded.
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In January 1919 the leaders of thirty-two countries, representing between them some three-quarters of the world's population, assembled in Paris. Read the first page
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I bought this book as research for history coursework and found it very useful. It provided an in-depth analysis into the Versailles Treaty and its consequences and its contribution to the outbreak of the second world war. I would recommend this book for research purposes and also as a study aid. It is also useful for examining the origins of the second world war.
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The Versailles Treaty, the most flawed if not the most infamous
treaties between nations, was in 1919, and still is the model of
wrecking the hopes for a "just peace" and at the same time
openly setting the stage for future wars. The 1919 Versailles
"treaty" made the Third Reich of 1933-1945 inevitable.
Reparations, based on Gold-Bearer Bonds of $33,000,000,000.00,
was something Germany or almost any other nation in 1919
could not afford to pay. The Versailles Treaty was the 1919
"garage sale" of Germany's war-weakened economy, and made
Germany weak in terms of any real national defense, even for
a defeated foe. Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1919-1933
period did their best to try to kick Germany when that nation
had only a 100,000-man "defense force" to defend itself.
France, humiliated by it's stupid war loss to Germany in 1871,
only made things worse: For example, the Ruhr Invasion of
Germany--1923-1924. Also, several attempts to create a
series of pro-French separatist "Rhineland Republics"---1919-
thru-1924. A.K.A.--Divide and Conquer a prostrated Germany.
The new democratic German Weimar "republic" had to accept the
responsibility, and "take the heat" for the deposed Kaiser
Wilhelm-the Second, and also accepting the "fact" that Germany
had to not only admit, under coersion, that the Germans
"started" World War One, but to accept "full responsibility"
for the total costs of the First World War.
Colonel House took advantage of a emotionally disturbed
maniac-depressive called Woodrow Wilson, that tried to create
an abortive attempt at a new world order, that only made
the Second World War inevitable. Wilson's Fourteen Points
of January of 1918, were exposed as the "points" of hypocrisy
and stupid wishful thinking. Wilson was already showing
signs of delusions of grandeur. During the Versailles Treaty's
creation, a British delegate, the Rt. Hon. John Maynard Keynes,
the future "father" of modern Keynesian economics, saw through
Wilson and the phony "peace process" of 1919 the Versailles
"peace process".
The book--Versailles and After 1919-1933, did an excellent
job in exposing the [...] of the 1919 Treaty
of Versailles, and shows that President Woodrow Wilson, and
his puppet-master and controller Colonel House, were at best,
naive to the real aggressor--the Third French Republic, and
in reality, highly educated fools that France played the U.S.
for suckers in 1919-and beyond.
I recommend this fine book.
Thank You;
Dr. Nick Stage--PHD
treaties between nations, was in 1919, and still is the model of
wrecking the hopes for a "just peace" and at the same time
openly setting the stage for future wars. The 1919 Versailles
"treaty" made the Third Reich of 1933-1945 inevitable.
Reparations, based on Gold-Bearer Bonds of $33,000,000,000.00,
was something Germany or almost any other nation in 1919
could not afford to pay. The Versailles Treaty was the 1919
"garage sale" of Germany's war-weakened economy, and made
Germany weak in terms of any real national defense, even for
a defeated foe. Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1919-1933
period did their best to try to kick Germany when that nation
had only a 100,000-man "defense force" to defend itself.
France, humiliated by it's stupid war loss to Germany in 1871,
only made things worse: For example, the Ruhr Invasion of
Germany--1923-1924. Also, several attempts to create a
series of pro-French separatist "Rhineland Republics"---1919-
thru-1924. A.K.A.--Divide and Conquer a prostrated Germany.
The new democratic German Weimar "republic" had to accept the
responsibility, and "take the heat" for the deposed Kaiser
Wilhelm-the Second, and also accepting the "fact" that Germany
had to not only admit, under coersion, that the Germans
"started" World War One, but to accept "full responsibility"
for the total costs of the First World War.
Colonel House took advantage of a emotionally disturbed
maniac-depressive called Woodrow Wilson, that tried to create
an abortive attempt at a new world order, that only made
the Second World War inevitable. Wilson's Fourteen Points
of January of 1918, were exposed as the "points" of hypocrisy
and stupid wishful thinking. Wilson was already showing
signs of delusions of grandeur. During the Versailles Treaty's
creation, a British delegate, the Rt. Hon. John Maynard Keynes,
the future "father" of modern Keynesian economics, saw through
Wilson and the phony "peace process" of 1919 the Versailles
"peace process".
The book--Versailles and After 1919-1933, did an excellent
job in exposing the [...] of the 1919 Treaty
of Versailles, and shows that President Woodrow Wilson, and
his puppet-master and controller Colonel House, were at best,
naive to the real aggressor--the Third French Republic, and
in reality, highly educated fools that France played the U.S.
for suckers in 1919-and beyond.
I recommend this fine book.
Thank You;
Dr. Nick Stage--PHD
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