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Six Months That Changed The World: The Paris Peace Conference Of 1919-
Author: The Modern Scholar
Read By: Margaret MacMillan
Copyright: 2003
Audiobook Copyright: 2003
Genre: Lecture
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc
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Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919-
Professor Margaret MacMillan
(University of Toronto)
Margaret MacMillan is the Provost of Trinity College and Professor of
History at the University of Toronto. She was an undergraduate at Trinity
and did an Honours B.A. in History. Her graduate work was at the University
of Oxford where she did a B.Phil. in Politics and a D.Phil. on the British
in India
The world will never see another peace conference like the one which
- including
Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, David Lloyd George,
prime minister of Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau, prime minister
of France - met to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World
War One. They faced huge issues and, as the weeks went by, their agenda
came before it and petitioners for political, social, and economic causes
came to get a hearing.
The Peace Conference dealt with, among other things, winding up the
Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, punishing Germany, creating Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia and Iraq, setting up the League of Nations and the International
Labour Organization, regulating international waterways and aviation,
and feeding refugees. A great war had just ended and political and social
structures were collapsing in parts of Europe and the Middle East. New
borders had to be established. The peacemakers in Paris worked under
great pressures, from their own public opinions and from the forces
of revolutionary communism which had been set off by the Russian revolution
of 1917 and ethnic nationalism. They made many decisions, many of which
have been criticized ever since. Some have argued that the peace settlements
of 1919 led directly to the outbreak of World War Two in 1939.
To understand what happened in Paris in 1919 is to understand our century.
The burial requiems for the old world were sung there and the new made
its uneasy start. Much of the world we live in today is shaped by decisions
made all those years ago. The Peace Conference was about many things:
punishing the defeated, to begin with, and rewarding the victors. It
dismembered old states and created new ones. It was about disarmament,
slavery and child labour. It was about Europe but it was also about
the Middle East, the South Pacific, Africa and Asia. It was the first
truly global international conference. Above all it was about building
a better world. Can there be a peaceful and just international order?
The question is still with us today.
Course Syllabus
Lecture 1 The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Lecture 2 The Peace Conference Meets in Paris
Lecture 3 New Forces in International Relations
Lecture 4 The League of Nations and Mandates
Lecture 5 Germany
Lecture 6 New Nations
Lecture 7 Poland
Lecture 8 Italy
Lecture 9 Greece and Turkey
Lecture 10 Palestine and the Jewish Homeland
Lecture 11 The Arab Middle East
Lecture 13 The Far East
Lecture 14 The End
After the Peace Conference
Maps
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