HIST 1084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, 1918 Flu Pandemic
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Postwar quest for peace: wilson"s fourteen points, treaty of versailles, ethnic self-determination, article 231: war guilt cause, war reparations, league of nations. German weimar republic: 1918-1933, november 1918: king abdicates, government resigns, moderate socialists in power, moderate but fragile authority, who take control of republic, spartacist uprising. Idea that germans can"t believe that germany lost the war. France: main battleground, suffered most, brunt of german military, massive human losses (1. 7m / 4. 5%, desperate to control germany, desperate for revenge. Great britain: losses (1m / 2. 2%, revenge on germany, balance of power concern, financially ruined, empire in jeopardy. Russia: deaths (3. 5m / 2%, fall of tzar, pariah socialist state, civil war. Usa: losses (117,000 / . 13%, short war, super power, 1918 opportunity to reboot global system financial boost. The big four: vittorio orlando, italism premier: wanted territory promised when italy joined allies, david lloyd george, british prime minister: wanted support of british public by punishing.
