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‘The international situation that confronted the peace – makers in Paris was in the brutal realities of history, the result of a temporary redistribution of the balance of power in the world.’ Comment in about 200 words.

  • UPSC 1987
  • World Wars

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 did not meet on a blank slate; it inherited a European order shaped by a century of shifting alliances and a war that had only provisionally settled who actually held power.

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  • The Inherited Order and Its Collapse
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