Paris 1919 Six Months That Changed The World
When the First World War ended in 1918, many nations started to do reparations on the land, economy, and the political government. The war had damaged millions of people who wanted to see change in the nations. One of the major reparations began in Paris in 1919. This became known as the famous Treaty of Versailles. This event in 1919, led to many authors publishing books, articles, and other methods critiquing about the Peace talks during this time. In the book Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, Margaret MacMillan writes about the Peace talks in Paris through the lens of the American, British and the French perspective. Instead of criticizing the Peace talk in Paris, MacMillan delves into Paris 1919 discrediting the myths the world
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The Peace Conference had become the most important peacemaking business post-World War One. The four year war had shocked the world, had to be discussed. Another war like this had to be prevented in the future because of the amount of damage it had done could not be fully repaired. MacMillan writes us a story about the peace talks that led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. In the novel, MacMillan dedicates a few of the chapters to describing the characters of the Treaty of Versailles. Woodrow Wilson, David Llyod George, Georges Clemenceau, were the main people that MacMillan focuses on in her book. As many nations were invited to this big Peace talk, only the ‘Big Four’ decided on the final decisions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of Macmillan’s biggest points in the book is focused on how the historical myth that Paris 1919 lead to World War Two is not the correct ideology. She writes, “Its is tempting, but misleading to compare the situation in 1919 to that in 1945” MacMillan’s another main idea is that the social and ethnic conflicts in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East were the ones that laid the fundamentals to the start of the Second World War. MacMillan’s narrative novel of the Peace Conference its ideologies and issues help us understand the six months that changed the
The Peace Conference had become the most important peacemaking business post-World War One. The four year war had shocked the world, had to be discussed. Another war like this had to be prevented in the future because of the amount of damage it had done could not be fully repaired. MacMillan writes us a story about the peace talks that led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. In the novel, MacMillan dedicates a few of the chapters to describing the characters of the Treaty of Versailles. Woodrow Wilson, David Llyod George, Georges Clemenceau, were the main people that MacMillan focuses on in her book. As many nations were invited to this big Peace talk, only the ‘Big Four’ decided on the final decisions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of Macmillan’s biggest points in the book is focused on how the historical myth that Paris 1919 lead to World War Two is not the correct ideology. She writes, “Its is tempting, but misleading to compare the situation in 1919 to that in 1945” MacMillan’s another main idea is that the social and ethnic conflicts in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East were the ones that laid the fundamentals to the start of the Second World War. MacMillan’s narrative novel of the Peace Conference its ideologies and issues help us understand the six months that changed the