THE END OF THE WORLD WAR

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THE END OF THE WORLD WAR

• DO NOW If WWI had not happened how would the
  world look different?

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Paris 1919 six months that changed the world

• The world has paid heavy price for the greed of
  old men who played ruthless games in Paris that
  year. Hitlers rise can be attributed to the
  humiliation the Germans suffered, not to mention
  the surrender of their colonies, the navy, and
  industrial output. Mussolini was inspired by
  Fiume. The British plot to create Israel, without
  proper negotiations with the Arabs, along with
  encouragement to Arab nationalism to revolt
  against the Ottoman empire without redeeming the
  promises made, has led to wars, Intifadas and Al
  Qaeda. The cheating of China contributed to the
  rise of communism, with all its consequences.-

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Continued..

• As the world entered twenty first century, with
  terrorist attacks on the American symbols of
  economic and political power, and myriad
  conflicts in the developing world, one is
  reminded of how the mistakes of Paris were
  repeated at Yalta. The United States, UK, France
  and the former Soviet Union, so thoughtful in
  distributing zones of influence in Europe, have
  again and again forgotten that real people also
  live in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East
  and Asia.

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Continued

• Prof Margaret MacMillan reaches a very dangerous
  conclusion as to why the Paris peace conference
  was more like negotiations between real estate
  brokers than a plan to create a sustainable world
  order, capable of carrying most parts of the
  planet for at least a century or two. In the last
  paragraph of the book, she says, that the
  negotiators might have been willing to
  contemplate a completely new way of conducting
  international relations if only the world had
  been thoroughly devastated by the war. Obviously
  the destruction caused by the First World War was
  not enough by the standards of their morality.

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Continued

• The behavior of our leaders indicates that the
  first world war, the second world war, the
  Vietnam war, the two Gulf wars, the Arab-Israeli
  wars, and several regional conflicts have not yet
  caused thorough enough devastation of the world
  for them to seek a new way of managing
  international relations. How can the irrational
  passions of greedy old men be contained before
  their excuses of nationalism, religion and even
  democracy do more damage? How can we ever have
  national and international governance based on
  the principles for the benefit of the worlds
  people, rather than pursuit of power by those
  driven by insatiable thirst? How can we create
  the architecture of the sustainable global
  security and development? Prof MacMillan deserves
  thanks for provoking us to ask these questions.

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All the previous slides were taken from

• Sundeep Waslekar review of Paris 1919 by Margaret
  MacMillian
• Do you agree with MacMillians conclusion? Why?