Horak S. M. The First Treaty of World War I / S. M. Horak. - Boulder; New York : East European Monographs; Columbia University Press, 1988. - 202 p.Horak, Stephen M. The First Treaty of World War I: Ukraine's Treaty with Central Powers of February 9, 1918. Boulder, Colo.: ...
The German Government, intending to do just that so as to reach France (specifically Paris) all the faster in the opening weeks of the First World War, asked the British government in August 1914 to effectively ignore the "scrap of paper" committing Britain to the defence of Belgium. Britain...
From the coming into force of the present Treaty Germany undertakes to give the Allied and Associated Powers and their nationals the benefit ipso facto of the rights and advantages of any kind which she has granted by treaties, conventions, or arrangements to nonbelligerent States or their nationa...
At the end of the First World War, in 1918. China was convinced it would be able to reclaim the territories occupied by the Germans in present-day Shandong Province. After all, it had fought along with the Allies. However it was not to be. The warlord government of the day had (1)...
The treaty also established the League of Nations, an international organization dedicated to resolving world conflicts peacefully. Wilson, however, was unable to convince the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty, because it was opposed to U.S. membership in the League of Nations. World War I ...
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The war was ended by theTreaty of Nanjing, signed on August 29, 1842. In addition to having to pay heavywar reparationsto Britain, China had to open five trading ports. One of these ports wasShanghai, which would be transformed into one of China’s major commercial entrepôts. In addi...
28 June 1919: The Treaty of Versailles formally ends theFirst World War. 28. junij - s podpisom versajske pogodbe se končaprva svetovna vojna. WikiMatrix Poison gases were used in theFirst World War, and now, everyone is afraid of them. ...
of their women and children were starved to death. The rise of Bolshevism in Germany became so dangerous that even war hawks like Lloyd George realised that Germany had to be allowed to survive in a much reduced state. Finally the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, never ratified by the Am...
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