Could the Versailles System have Worked?

• Main Author: Elcock, Howard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; World politics.; World War, 1939-1945.; History, Modern.; Peace.; History of Modern Europe.; Political History.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Modern History.; Peace Studies.

This book explores the significance of the post-First World War peace settlement negotiated at Versailles in 1919. Versailles has always been a controversial subject and it has long been contended that the Treaty imposed unnecessarily severe conditions upon the defeated nations, particularly Germany...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: the Carthaginian Peace or what?
• Chapter 2. The Conference and the Treaty
• Chapter 3. "Double, double, toil and trouble": Years of frustration
• Chapter 4. More frustrations, more troubles
• Chapter 5. The dawn breaks: progress towards peace
• Chapter 6. Peace and prosperity on Europe - for the time being
• Chapter 7. Things fall apart: the Great Crash and the onset of disaster
• Chapter 8. Götterdämmerung: Hitler and the end of the Versailles System
• Table of references
• Index.