European Diplomacy in the 1920s

To understand European diplomacy during the 1920s:

• Be aware of the importance of the German question and the amount of German reparations after World War I as one of European diplomacy's central concerns
• How did Joseph Wirth and Walther Rathenau feel Germany should relate to the Allied powers?
• Observe the fate of Germany through the following events:

• Conference at Cannes (1922)
• Conference at Genoa (1922)
• Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
• Occupation of the Ruhr (1923)
• Dawes Plan (1924)
• Locarno Treaties (1925)
• Treaty of Berlin (1926)
• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
• Young Plan (1929)
• Evacuation of the Rhineland (1929)

• Pay special attention to the Locarno Era and the role played by Gustav Stresemann

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