The First World War: Costs and consequences: The price of peace (History Matters, The First World War Book 7)
Book Details
PublisherA*Star Education
ISBN / ASINB01K4ZIA2U
ISBN-13978B01K4ZIA21
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
This volume reveals the human and economic costs of the First World War and describes the turmoil within Germany as a socialist Chancellor made a pact with the right-wing forces of the old imperial military establishment in order to maintain power, and dashed the hopes of the working classes.
It goes further than the various peace treaties which decided the boundaries of the defeated nations and those new countries emerging from the splintering empires, to cover the establishment of the League of Nations, the rise of Fascism, the beginnings of the Nazi Party and the irreconcilable attitudes of the German population with its neighbours, its refusal to accept defeat and stored resentment that meant a future conflict was both predictable and not long delayed.
Cost and consequences is extensively illustrated with 103 black-and-white and colour photographs and 23 colour and black-and-white illustrations and maps.
Contents:
Introduction - Costs and Consequences – The Human cost – The financial cost – The new German Republic, Who rules Germany? – The ‘stab-in-the-back’ myth – The peace settlement – Reactions to the peace treaty – The Kaiser and war crimes – The fate of German overseas possessions – Re-drawing the boundaries in Europe – Allied intervention in Russia – The Middle and Near East, Palestine and the Levant – Turkey and Greece – The Kapp Putsch in Germany – War guilt and reparations – Effects of the occupation of the Ruhr and German hyperinflation – The League of Nations – France and the Treaty of Locarno – Secret German rearmament – The USA and isolationism – Italy and the rise of Fascism – The beginnings of the Nazi Party – Hitler’s treason trial – Social changes – Adjustments to peacetime in Britain – New freedoms – Remembrance – Author’s note
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It goes further than the various peace treaties which decided the boundaries of the defeated nations and those new countries emerging from the splintering empires, to cover the establishment of the League of Nations, the rise of Fascism, the beginnings of the Nazi Party and the irreconcilable attitudes of the German population with its neighbours, its refusal to accept defeat and stored resentment that meant a future conflict was both predictable and not long delayed.
Cost and consequences is extensively illustrated with 103 black-and-white and colour photographs and 23 colour and black-and-white illustrations and maps.
Contents:
Introduction - Costs and Consequences – The Human cost – The financial cost – The new German Republic, Who rules Germany? – The ‘stab-in-the-back’ myth – The peace settlement – Reactions to the peace treaty – The Kaiser and war crimes – The fate of German overseas possessions – Re-drawing the boundaries in Europe – Allied intervention in Russia – The Middle and Near East, Palestine and the Levant – Turkey and Greece – The Kapp Putsch in Germany – War guilt and reparations – Effects of the occupation of the Ruhr and German hyperinflation – The League of Nations – France and the Treaty of Locarno – Secret German rearmament – The USA and isolationism – Italy and the rise of Fascism – The beginnings of the Nazi Party – Hitler’s treason trial – Social changes – Adjustments to peacetime in Britain – New freedoms – Remembrance – Author’s note
*** This is the Kindle edition suitable for all Kindle devices and reading apps. A fixed-page edition is available separately for certain devices. Search Amazon for ASIN B01IM1PGRA ***
