World War 1
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- The central idea of the passage is that the reparations that the treaty tried to make Germany pay for just caused more trouble all around the world.
- “The German Foreign Ministry in the 1920s even had a propaganda unit that took every opportunity to encourage attacks on the treaty and, by selectively releasing documents, to suggest that Germany bore no more responsibility for the war than any other nation. All were guilty or none were”. Pg.3
- "The French remembered too, if nobody else did, that it was the Germans who had declared war on France in 1914, not the other way round". Pg.4
- "At the Paris peace talks of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson was very clear that there should be no punitive fines on the losers, only legitimate costs". Pg. 2
- The central idea of the passage is that the reparations that the treaty tried to make Germany pay for just caused more trouble all around the world.
- “They were economically unsound and a political mistake with serious consequences. John Maynard Keynes, a member of the British delegation in Paris, rightly argued that the Allies should have forgotten about reparations altogether”. Pg. 3-4
- "The wrangling over reparations also helped turn the German people against co-operation with the international system". Pg.2
- The central idea of the passage is that the reparations that the treaty tried to make Germany pay for just caused more trouble all around the world.
- "Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French". Pg.2-3
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