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Making a conclusion, it's important to note that despite all attempts of W. Wilson, his fourteen points were not ratified. France and Great Britain could not confess that their colonial systems were doomed to collapse, so reparations of Weimar Germany were provisional panacea for their economies. Political instability and further social revolution was apparent from the first days of the Weimar Republic: strikes, workers movements, crisis and depression were evidence that people were not satisfied with the conditions of life and they were ready to act. Peace treaties signed after WWI only created fertile soil for revenge and new war. S. Tucker writes, that unofficial outbreak of
Hitler's militarism only proved it.
References
Tucker, S. The Great War 1914-1918, Indiana University Press 1998
Gay, Peter Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider W.W. Norton & Company 2001, p.14
Eyck, Erich History of the Weimar Republic Macmillan Pub Co 1970
Before the War America's strained neutrality, Article at http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/intro/neutral.htm
Versailles Treaty, Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_Treaty
Fourteen points, available on web resource:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/fourteenpoints.htm
Before the War America's strained neutrality, Article at http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/intro/neutral.htm
Tucker, S. The Great War 1914-1918, p. 157
Fourteen points, available on web resource:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/fourteenpoints.htm
Gay, Peter Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider W.W. Norton & Company 2001, p.14
Eyck, Erich History of the Weimar Republic Macmillan Pub Co 1970
Versailles Treaty, Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_Treaty
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