Today in
Social Sciences we have done a review about the Conference of Paris. In this
conference, only the winners could attend, the defeated countries weren´t
allowed to attend.
The
president of the U.S.A, Woodrow Wilson, presented a Fourteen- Point Plan, based
on the right of self- determination, but this right wasn´t given to all the
peoples which wanted to create their own nations. The winners obliged the
losers to sign separated peace treaties. There were five peace treaties in
total:
-Sevres,
with the Ottoman Empire.
-Trianon,
with Hungary.
-St. Germain
in Austria.
-Nevilly in
Bulgaria.
-Versailles
with Germany. It was the most important treaty because led to the Creation of the
League of Nations. The League of Nations
was a precedent of the United Nations and the main objectives were: preserving
peace and solving international problems un a peaceful way. But it was weak since
it was created because the U.S.A didn´t join it, all the countries had the same
power and decisions had to be unanimous, there wasn´t army to impose their
sanctions.
In this
Treaty, there were some territorial sanctions, Germany lost 1/8 of its
territory and its empire was distributed between the U.K(1/3 of Togoland and
Cameroon and Tangonyka and New Guinea in Asia), France( 2/3 of Togoland and
Cameroon),Belgium(Rwanda and Burundi) and South Africa Union which was under
U.K control at the same time,(German Western Africa, present Namibia). Like
South Africa continued to be a colony, Paqui has explained us that after World
War 2, many of the colonial empires started to become independent.
Other
sanctions were, the military sanctions like, demilitarization of the West bank
of River Rhine.
Afterwards,
we have been seeing some pictures about the stab in the back in which the
German government had treasoned the German people by accepting Versailles
Treaty.
Paqui has
explained us how was Europe after the war: the disintegration of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire gave birth to two new States: Austria and Hungary and the
Slaves of the south created Yugoslavia. Another disintegration was the Ottoman
Empire. Paqui has told us that many present problems in Iraq came from this
war, for example one of the main problems is the Kurds.
We have
continued with the unit and we have started to read the consequences of War,
but the bell has rung, so we have to do an exercise for homework about it.
Paqui has
explained the meaning of Spanish flu. The flu was introduced by U.S.A soldiers
in Europe, but it received the name of Spanish flu because the main cases studied
were in Spain. We have been talking about John Maynard Keynes, who was a
British economist that wrote a book warned about the economic consequences of
an unfair peace.
We have
learn some new words like:
To attend:
asistir.
Guidelines:
orientaciones.
Diktat:
humillación
Buffer
area: cordon sanitario. It was an area created to stop the spread of
revolutionary ideas in 1919, coming from Russia.
Casualties:
víctimas.
Disabled/ handicapped:
discapacitados, mutilados.
3 comments:
Hello Rebeca!!
I haven't seen any mistakes, good work!
I think that if the sanctions given to the losers of the WWI had been less, the revenge of these countries had been less. All the countries that participated in the WWI have a part of blame.
Bye!
Well done, Rebeca.
Javi, as you have said, peace conferences should serve to build peace and the Conference of Paris was not an example of this kind. All the sanctions to Germany were related to the UK and French fear for the economic development of Germany. They tried to stop it with the hard sanctions they imposed, but when the economic crisis started in 1929, Germany went through a big depression (6 million unemployed) and this was the context for the rise of Nazism. Hard times are a fertile ground for extremism, as we can see in Europe now (rise of extreme-right parties in different countries: Finland, Netherlands, France...).
Hello again, Rebeca,
I´ve been checking older posts and you´ve used the same image Dani included on his post some days ago. Could you change it for a different one? You could include a map with the new countries appeared in Europe after the war.
Good night
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