PEACEMAKING, 1919-1920. Tentative Plan of meetings on 1/30/19.

March 11:-- Introduction. From War to Peace. The Armistice of November 11. Paris as the site of the conference. The organization of the Conference. The five treaties of peace. The Allied and American delegations. Cameos:--Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wilson, David Lloyd George, Frances Stevenson, Georges Clemenceau. Reading: MacMillan, chaps. 1-4, 12, 21. (70 pp.)

March 18:-- The Old Diplomacy and the New. Progressive internationalism, Wilsonian and other. The Covenant of the League of Nations. Negotiating the League at Paris, 1919. The Interwar history of the League, its successes and failures. Cameos:--Wilson redux, Robert Cecil, Leonard Woolf. Reading: MacMillan, chaps. 5,7,8. (35 pp.)

March 25:-- Germany during the Paris Peace Conference: Revolution, National Assembly, and the Weimar Republic. Russia during the Paris Peace Conference: The Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian civil war. The Allied and U.S. interventions. Cameos:-- Friedrich Ebert, Rosa Luxemburg, Hugo Preuss, V.I. Lenin, L. Trotsky. Reading: MacMillan, chap. 6. Gerwarth, chaps. 1-2, 6-9. (138 pp.)

April 1:-- Anti-German sentiment at the end of the Great War. The German issues at the conference: Self- determination, security, and the boundaries of Germany decided in 1919 and those altered, by agreement and force, between the wars. Disarmament, reality and revanche. Reparations and war guilt: the chronic issue. Cameos:-- Harold Nicolson, Maynard Keynes, Andre Tardieu, Col. House, Clemenceau redux. Reading: MacMillan, chaps. 13-16. Gerwarth, chap. 13. (70 pp.)

April 8:-- The Balkans and the states that succeeded to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The predicaments of self-determination versus security and economic viability. National survival between Germany and Russia. French diplomacy between the wars. Cameos:-- Joséf Pilsudski, Ignace Paderewski, Edvard Beneš, Tomás, Masaryk, R.W. Seton-Watson. Reading: MacMillan, chaps. 9-11 and 17-20. Gerwarth, chaps. 11-12. (124 pp.)

April 15. Italy’s war and Italy’s war aims. Origins of fascism. The Far Eastern issues: the growth of Japanese power during and after the First World War. Cameos:-- Benito Mussolini, Prince Saonji., Reading: MacMillan, chaps. 22-24. Gerwarth, chaps. 10,14. (91 pp)

April 22. The Treaty of Sèvres; Greece, the Turkish national revolt and the Treaty of Lausanne. The League of Nation mandates. Britain and France in the Middle East, especially Britain and the Palestine Mandate. Cameos:-- Eleutherios Venizelos, Mustafa Kemal, Chaim Weizmann. Arthur Balfour, Gertrude Bell, T.E. Lawrence. Reading: MacMillan, chaps. 25-29. Gerwarth, chaps. 11, 15. (149 pp.)

April 29. The Treaty of Versailles: a just outcome of the Great War? Could Versailles and the related treaties have been the basis for a stable peace? Or, did the mistakes of Versailles lead to another war? Where do we see the continuing effects of the Great War and the Peace Conference in our own time? Cameos:-- Ulrich von Brockdorf-Rantzau, Gustav Stresemann, Adolf Hitler, Keynes redux, Etienne Mantoux. Reading: MacMillan, chap 30 and Conclusion. Gerwarth, epilogue. (55 pp.)