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Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan

Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: MP3
Unabridged

A joke circulating in Paris early in 1919 held that the peacemaking Council of Four, representing Britain, France, the U.S. and Italy, was busy preparing a “just and lasting war.” Six months of parleying concluded on June 28 with Germany’s coerced agreement to a treaty no Allied statesman had fully read, according to MacMillan, a history professor at the University of Toronto, in this vivid account. Although President Wilson had insisted on a League of Nations, even his own Senate would vote the league down and refuse the treaty. As a rush to make expedient settlements replaced initial negotiating inertia, appeals by many nationalities for Wilsonian self-determination would be overwhelmed by rhetoric justifying national avarice. The Italians, who hadn’t won a battle, and the French, who’d been saved from catastrophe, were the greediest, says MacMillan; the Japanese plucked Pacific islands that had been German and a colony in China known for German beer. The austere and unlikable Wilson got nothing; returning home, he suffered a debilitating stroke. The council’s other members horse-traded for spoils, as did Greece, Poland and the new Yugoslavia. There was, Wilson declared, “disgust with the old order of things,” but in most decisions the old order in fact prevailed, and corrosive problems, like Bolshevism, were shelved. Hitler would blame Versailles for more ills than it created, but the signatories often could not enforce their writ. MacMillan’s lucid prose brings her participants to colorful and quotable life, and the grand sweep of her narrative encompasses all the continents the peacemakers vainly carved up. 16 pages of photos, maps.

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Lecture 01 The Paris Peace Conference of 1919.mp3 19.36 MBs
Lecture 02 The Peace Conference Meets in Paris.mp3 14.52 MBs
Lecture 03 New Forces in International Relations.mp3 14.88 MBs
Lecture 04 The League of Nations and Mandates.mp3 13.92 MBs
Lecture 05 Germany.mp3 13.89 MBs
Lecture 06 New Nations.mp3 13.33 MBs
Lecture 07 Poland.mp3 13.63 MBs
Lecture 08 Italy.mp3 13.46 MBs
Lecture 09 Greece and Turkey.mp3 15.67 MBs
Lecture 10 Palestine and the Jewish Homeland.mp3 13.94 MBs
Lecture 11 The Arab Middle East.mp3 15.19 MBs
Lecture 12 Germany
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