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22 - Drafting the peace

from Part IV - The search for peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2013

By
Helmut Konrad
Edited by
Jay Winter
Jay Winter
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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Peace treaties needed to be established that, on the one hand, would satisfy the war aims of the victors, but that, on the other, would also guarantee a long-lasting peace and prevent further wars, especially those of the magnitude of the war of 1914 to 1918. The Paris Peace Conference produced five peace treaties: with Germany, in Versailles; with Austria, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye; with Bulgaria, in Neuilly; with Hungary, at the Trianon; and with Turkey, in Sèvres. The First World War and the treaties create a greater re-orientation and a long-term potential for conflict in those areas that until 1918 had constituted the Ottoman Empire. The treaties were at least attempts to come to terms with the traumatic experience of the First World War, using the tools of diplomacy in the service of achieving strategic objectives.

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Austria-HungaryGermanyagrarian societyagrarian economyGreat Warvillage communitiessocial class
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The Cambridge History of the First World War , pp. 606 - 637
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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  • Drafting the peace
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675676.027
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  • Drafting the peace
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675676.027
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