Summary
Serge Berstein: They created peace
The Treaty of Versailles is the most famous peace treaty concluded at the end of the First World War. France, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan and Germany were the key signatory countries. So, if everyone wanted a meaningful peace agreement so that a similar war would never happen again, why didn't they succeed? What were the demands of one or the other that created the foundations for tensions in the future? Why did Italy and Japan, who were on the side of the Allies in 1918, want to question the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and twenty years later found themselves on the side of Nazi Germany and started the Second World War? Six top historians specializing in the First World War have explored the entire history of those negotiations, taking into account the perspective of each of the six countries. In this way, they helped us to understand how the agreement was reached, which is both novel in the desire to find a means to prohibit war, but also archaic in terms of the conditions imposed on the defeated.
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