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> Title:
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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
> Abridged: No
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> Book Description
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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
> problems 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
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> Lecture 3 New Forces in International Relations
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> Lecture 4 The League of Nations and Mandates
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> Lecture 5 Germany
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> Lecture 6 New Nations
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> Lecture 7 Poland
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> Lecture 8 Italy
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> Lecture 9 Greece and Turkey
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> Lecture 10 Palestine and the Jewish Homeland
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> Lecture 11 The Arab Middle East
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> Lecture 13 The Far East
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> Lecture 14 The End
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> After the Peace Conference
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> Maps
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> Course Materials
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> Attachment decoded: Six Months That Changed The World.nfo
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