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WWI Alliance Structure

WWI Alliance Structure. Of Note Death by combat, not disease* Improved medicine Improved weapons. Legacies of WWI Political Empires collapsing (German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian) Dynasties imploding (Hohenzollerns, Habsburg, Romanovs, Ottomans) Boundaries re-drawn

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WWI Alliance Structure

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  1. WWI Alliance Structure

  2. Of Note • Death by combat, not disease* • Improved medicine • Improved weapons

  3. Legacies of WWI • Political • Empires collapsing (German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian) • Dynasties imploding (Hohenzollerns, Habsburg, Romanovs, Ottomans) • Boundaries re-drawn • States created (Iraq, Yugoslavia) • Empires rising (Soviet Union) • Social • Health (dead and wounded, disease- Spanish Flu, famines- Russia) • Displacement of women • New national identities • Voting rights for women • Surge in trade unions • Dolchstoßlegende

  4. Legacies of WWI • Cultural • Monuments and memorials • Works- In Flanders Fields • End of Victorian Era/La Belle Epoque • International push towards internationalism (vs. nationalism) • The Lost Gerneration (PTSD, shell shock) • Economic • Military-Industrial complex • Return/non-return of soldiers (wounded or healthy) • Taxes, levies, bureaucracy • State debt, international lending

  5. Georges Clemenceau Vittorio Emanuele Orlando David Lloyd George Woodrow Wilson

  6. Paris 1919 is about… • Peace • Revenge • Land • Money • Blame

  7. Paris 1919 is about…Peace Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at. Freedom of the seas. The removal of all economic barriers, and establishment of equality of trade. Guarantees that national armaments will be reduced. Adjustment of colonial claims, that in determining all such questions of sovereignty, the interests of the people concerned must have equal weight with the claims of the government whose title is to be determined. Russian territory should be evacuated, and Russia welcomed into the society of free nations. Belgium should be evacuated and restored. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored. The frontiers of Italy should be readjusted along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. The peoples of Austria-Hungary should have the freest opportunity to independent development. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored, Serbia should have free and secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several Balkan states to each other should be determined by friendly counsel, and political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be internationally guaranteed. The Turkish portion of the Ottoman Empire should have a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are under Turkish rule should have an undoubted security of life and an opportunity of independent development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as passage to the ships and commerce of all nations. An independent Polish state should be erected including the territories inhabited by Polish populations, which should have free access to the sea. The League of Nations should be formed. Gentlemen of the Congress... It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind.  The day of conquest and aggrandizement is gone by; so is also the day of secret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world. -- Woodrow Wilson- Introduction to his “Fourteen Points for Peace” Paris 1919: Clip Four

  8. Paris 1919 is about…Blame Paris 1919: Clip Two, Clip Five

  9. Paris 1919 is about…Land

  10. Paris 1919 is about…Money • rep·a·ra·tion •    /ˌrɛpəˈreɪʃən/ Spelled[rep-uh-rey-shuhn] IPA • –noun • 1. the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice. • 2. Usually, reparations. compensation in money, material, labor, etc., • payable by a defeated country to another country or to an • individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war. • 3. restoration to good condition. • Buildings • Infrastructure • Cost of war • Loss of life • Loss of earning power • Guilt? Eventual Total: 269 billion gold marks, $393.6 Billion USD Paris 1919: Clip One

  11. Paris 1919 is about…Revenge Paris 1919: Clip Eight

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