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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449747303321

Autore

Henig Ruth B (Ruth Beatrice)

Titolo

Versailles and after, 1919-1933 [[electronic resource] /] / Ruth Henig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-280-46336-8

9786610463367

0-203-13430-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Lancaster pamphlets

Disciplina

940.3/142

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Peace

World War, 1914-1918 - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Versailles and after 1919-1933; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology of events; Western and Central Europe in 1919; Versailles and After 1919-1933; Introduction; Shaping the peace; Public opinion in the allied countries; Russia and Germany; The impact of the United States; Making the peace; Organization; The League of Nations; Mandates; Military and naval terms; Reparations; Frontiers in the Adriatic and Mediterranean region; The Far East; Keeping the peace; Eastern and South-Eastern Europe; Reparations and disarmament; Security; The League of Nations; Summary

Peacemaking: the historical debatePeacekeeping: the problems; Appendix One; The powers represented at Paris; Appendix Two; A summary of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points; Select Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

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.