Britain, France and Germany and the Treaty of Versailles by Nick Shepley

Author:Nick Shepley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Treaty, of, Versailles, Britain, France, Germany, World, War, One, Verdun, Somme, Kaiser, Schlieffen Plan, Hitler, Sykes, Picot, Woodrow, Wilson.
ISBN: 9781849899413
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2011
Published: 2011-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Perhaps Clemenceau’s most damaging legacy at Versailles was the issue of reparations. He had never been a finance minister and understood little about macroeconomics, but he understood politics and the French national sentiment. Clemenceau demanded reparations for the damage that Germany had done to France, and the reason for this was largely to placate the French population. Eventually the matter went to a reparations committee, and so was no longer directly influenced by the French Government, but the French had established a principal, that the reparations should be punitive, and that their purpose was to make Germany suffer. This would have serious destabilizing consequences for the future.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.