Versailles and the Ruhr: Seedbed of World War II
Given the atmosphere of the time, given the passions aroused in all democracies by years of war, it would have been impossible even for supermen to devise a peace of moderation and righteousness .•..• human error is a permanent and not a periodic factor in history. Harold Nicolson, writing in I933 o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1968, 1968
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1968 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. The Postwar Setting
- II. Reparation or Hegemony? The Background and Development of Poincaré’s Ruhr Policy
- III. Opposition and the Retreat from Hegemony
- IV. Britain and the Policy of Benevolent Neutrality
- V. The Abandonment of Benevolent Neutrality
- VI. Weimar Germany and the Ruhr Struggle
- VII. Stresemann and the Fulfilment Policy
- VIII. United States Policy: The Wilson Administration and the Developing Ruhr Question
- XI. Charles Evans Hughes and the Emergence of the Dawes Plan
- X. Some Conclusions
- Appendices
- Bibliographical Essay
- Selected Bibliography