World War I Development of Term Paper

According to Henry Kissinger, treaty was nothing but a "brittle compromise agreement between American utopism and European paranoia - too conditional to fulfill the dreams of the former, too tentative to alleviate the fears of the latter."

Making a conclusion, it's important to note that despite all attempts of W. Wilson, his fourteen points were not ratified. France and Great Britain could not confess that their colonial systems were doomed to collapse, so reparations of Weimar Germany were provisional panacea for their economies. Political instability and further social revolution was apparent from the first days of the Weimar Republic: strikes, workers movements, crisis and depression were evidence that people were not satisfied with the conditions of life and they were ready to act. Peace treaties signed after WWI only created fertile soil for revenge and new war. S. Tucker writes, that unofficial outbreak of WWII was annexation of Manchuria by Japanese militarists as it showed helplessness of League of Nations.Hitler's militarism only proved it.

References

Tucker, S. The Great War 1914-1918, Indiana University Press 1998

Gay, Peter Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider W.W. Norton & Company 2001, p.14

Eyck, Erich History of the Weimar Republic Macmillan Pub Co 1970

Before the War America's strained neutrality, Article at http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/intro/neutral.htm

Versailles Treaty, Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_Treaty

Fourteen points, available on web resource:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/fourteenpoints.htm

Before the War America's strained neutrality, Article at http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/intro/neutral.htm

Tucker, S. The Great War 1914-1918, p. 157

Fourteen points, available on web resource:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/fourteenpoints.htm

Gay, Peter Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider W.W. Norton & Company 2001, p.14

Eyck, Erich History of the Weimar Republic Macmillan Pub Co 1970

Versailles Treaty, Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_Treaty

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