The Paris Peace Conference, 1919

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  1. What forces were at work at the Paris Peace Conference? Note especially the treatment given to the question of "war guilt."
  2. What was the central issue of the Conference?
  3. List:
  • The Big Three
  • Big Four
  • Big Five
  1. Know what each representative from the Big Three wanted out of the Conference.
  2. Memorize Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points."
  3. Summarize the provisions of the peace treaties.
  4. Evaluate the Paris Peace Conference in general, and specifically its handling of Germany, Russia, and the other countries of eastern Europe such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
  5. What were the weaknesses of the League of Nations? Note its ineffectiveness in the Manchurian Crisis of 1931 and the Ethiopian Crisis of 1935.
  6. Who were the members of the League of Nations?

 

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The Paris Peace Conference

And Its Aftermath

Introduction
Wilson's Fourteen Points
The Peace Treatires
The Russian Question
Eastern Europe
An Evaluation
League of Nations

 

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