GOV 312L Chapter Notes - Chapter Modules 9 - 17: Dissolution Of The Soviet Union, Jus Ad Bellum, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Could not set terms of peace unilaterally 6 month bargaining session to remake eu. Only 3 people held face of the world. They set rights, governments of the world. Wilson traded some concession over lon for imperial rights for f and gb. Eu given only 1 week to accept the treaty. Lost navy , merchants , colonies , territory , army limited. Germans were left out of germany from new boundaries. Terms of versailles & wwii: destabilized new (weimar) democracy in gr, provided point where nationalist parties could mobilize support to overthrow treaty, wilson fails to ratify treaty in us rejected by senate. Died in 1930 when we could no longer make reparations. Bad bc both d and r supported war and an internationalist party after it. Domestic politics were there to support wilson, but he ruins it. Public not quite ready to support the war. Imposed huge economic costs on gr through reparations.
