182: Versailles Pt. 1 - The Treaty That Shaped (Broke?) The World

After the fighting had stopped, it was time to decide what the peace would look like. For this task representatives from all over the world gathered in Paris in early 1919. They all brought their own beliefs, hopes, and hatreds and in Paris they would hash out what would be known as the Treaty of Versailles. It would remake the map of Europe, create the modern map of the Middle East, and cause a whole host of problems for future generations to solve.  Do you want to chat with other History of the Great War listeners, and yours truly, come hang out in Discord: https://discord.gg/ASbBjaT Support the podcast on http://patreon.com/historyofthegreatwar where you can get access to special supporter only episodes. For a no strings attached donation: http://buymeacoffee.com/greatwar Sources: A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price we Pay Today by David A. Andelman Anglo-French Negotiations over the Boundaries of Palestine, 1919-1920 by John J. McTague Jr. The Boundaries of Israel-Palestine Past, Present, and Future: A Critical Geographical View by Gideon Biger Britain and Airpower at Versailles, 1919-1920 by Peter V. James The British Military Administration in Palestine 1917-1920 by John J. McTague Jr. Broken Promises of the Mandate: A Study of the Palestine Mandate Society and its Impact on the Proliferation of Zionism within Palestine and Great Britain by Brendon L. Larimore Creating Nations, Establishing States: Ethno-Religious Heterogeneity and the British Creation of Iraq in 1919–23 by Guiditta Fontana On the Economic Consequences of the Peace: Trade and Borders After Versailles by Nikolaus Wolf, Max-Stephan Schulze, and Hans-Christian Heinemeyer France and the Arab Middle East, 1914-1920 by Jan Karl Tanenbaum Mistakes and Myths: The Allies, Germany, and the Versailles Treaty, 1918–1921 by Sally Marks Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan and Richard Holbrooke Political Economics and the Weimar Disaster by Roger B. Myerson Russia and the Versailles Conference by George Kennan (1960) Syria and Mesopotamia in British Middle Eastern Policy in 1919 by John Fisher The imposed gift of Versailles:the fiscal effects of restricting the size of Germany’s armed forces,1924–9 by Max Hantke and Mark Spoerer The Myths of Reparations by Sally Marks The Role of Illusion in the Making of the Versailles Treaty by Bonnie Baker Unconditional Acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles by the German Government, June 22-28, 1919 by Alma Luckau Wilsonian Self-Determination and the Versailles Settlement by Anthony Whelan Woodrow Wilson's Health and the Treaty Fight, 1919-1920 by Lloyd E. Ambrosius The Zionist Debates on Partition (1919-1947) by Itzhak Galnoor The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order by Adam Tooze A World Remade by G.J. Meyer Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson The United States and Germany in the Aftermath of War: I-1918-1929 by Frank Spencer The Legend of Versailles by Kenneth R. Rossman Reconstructing the Countryside of the Eastern Somme after the Great War by Hugh Clout  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices