The Inescapable Path to War

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The Inescapable Path to War

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Abstract

Historians joke that if World War I was the “war to end all wars,” then the Treaty of Versailles that followed it was the “peace to end all peace.” Decisions made at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), where the treaty was drafted, left many former belligerent countries dissatisfied—not only in defeated Germany but also in countries that had fought with the victorious Entente, such as Italy. Resentment against the postwar territorial arrangements as well as the economic consequences of the treaty’s terms influenced the rise of aggressive nationalist movements in Italy, Germany, and Japan and led to a second world war more devastating than the first.

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