Anglo-American relations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 /

The year 1919 marks a high point in the world power and prestige of Western democracy. World War I was ended, and the victory belonged to the democratic states. Theirs was the sober task-and the unique opportunity-of formulating a settlement that would guarantee impartial justice and preserve the pe...

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Main Author: Tillman, Seth P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1961.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of Anglo-American war aims, 1917-1918
  • From the pre-armistice agreement to the opening of the peace conference
  • The opening of the peace conference
  • The covenant of the League of Nations: an Anglo-American document
  • Anglo-American policy and the Russian revolution, 1919
  • Anglo-American issues arising from the "preliminary peace," the military clauses, and the disposition of German sea power
  • The principle of self-determination in Anglo-American policy: French security and the territorial settlement of western Europe
  • The principle of self-determination in Anglo-American policy: territorial problems of eastern Europe and the Middle East
  • The conflict of British and American policies in the reparations settlement
  • Problems of immediate and long-range economic cooperation
  • The revision of the covenant and Anglo-American naval rivalry; the birth of the international labor organization; the trial of the Kaiser
  • American principles versus British treaty obligations: the territorial claims of Italy and Japan
  • The Anglo-American reaction against the draft treaty and Lloyd George's proposals for revision, May 7-June 28
  • The breakdown of Anglo-American cooperation in the final stages of the peace conference: problems of Asia Minor, the Adriatic, and eastern Europe.