The Paris Peace Conference 1919: A student's guide to the Treaty of Versailles.
By Nick Shepley
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* A short history of the First World War
* An overview of the victorious powers
* An overview of the defeated powers
* The history of European empires after the war
* The historiography of the Paris Peace Conference
* Advice on how to answer essay questions
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The Paris Peace Conference 1919 - Nick Shepley
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Introduction
In December 1918 Paris became the focus, for six months, of the aspirations of millions of people from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. At the end of the most devastating war in human history at that point, the First World War that had lasted between 1914 and 1918, the leadership of the victorious powers gathered to re-shape the global order. In this ebook you will learn about the politicians who shaped the post war world during the conference and the problems they faced.
You will also learn about the nations that attended the conference and the aspirations many of them had. You will learn about the conference’s decisions and the impact they had on Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In the final part of this book there will a summary of the different interpretations of the Paris Peace Conference and advice on how to answer essay questions on the topic.
The First World War
In order to keep this ebook concise and focused on the topic of the conference, there isn’t the space here to discuss the war in its entirety, however, there needs to be a brief overview in order to make sense of the negotiations that followed it.
The war was fought not only on the Western Front in France and Belgium, but in the east between Germany and Austria Hungary on one had and Russia on the other. It was fought after 1915 between Italy and Austria Hungary in the Alps and between the British and the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles and the Middle East. It engulfed the Balkans, it was fought on the high seas at key battles such as Jutland and saw a prolonged U-boat campaign in the Atlantic that ultimately drew the USA into the conflict. The war devastated large parts of East Africa as the British and German attacked one another from their colonies, using large numbers of African troops.
France relied on large numbers of colonial soldiers from Africa and the British deployed over a million Indian troops on all fronts, be predominantly in Mesopotamia in the Middle East. Over a hundred thousand Chinese workers were used on the Western Front, manning railways and digging trenches, and war came to China as the British and their ally, Japan, dislodged Germany from her Treaty Port at Tsingtao. In four years 17 million people lost their lives as a result of the war and a further 20 million were injured or maimed. In combatant countries entire generations of young men were lost and deep psychological scars lingered long after the fighting had ended.
On the Western Front, a stalemate had emerged in 1914 as Germany’s plans of a swift war of manoeuvre to deal a ‘knock out blow’ to France failed. When the Ottoman Empire joined the war on Germany’s side in October 1914, the British and French believed it was the weak link in the German led alliance the ‘Central Powers’. Throughout 1915 the British and French, along with troops from Australia, New Zealand and other parts of Britain’s empire laid siege to the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles Straits. The operation ended in disaster and in early 1916 the allies were forced to withdraw.
The British and French Armies matched the strength of Germany and in 1916 the western allies, along with Italy and Russia attempted a series of ‘concentric attacks’ against Germany and Austria, coordinating all their efforts on all sides of which the only real gains were made by the Russians in the Carpathian Offensive. Germany quickly counter attacked, rolling back Russia’s successes and on the Western Front, at the start of the year, she attacked the French at Verdun, hoping the ‘bleed France white’, to cause such huge losses that the French would no longer be able to carry on the fight.
The British and French counter attacked at the Somme, resulting in biggest single loss of life to the British Army in any one battle. In February 1917, the the war resulted in a revolution in Russia