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The most important single factor… in the years following 1919 was the French demand for security. Comment.

  • UPSC 2004
  • World Wars

France emerged from the First World War victorious but traumatised, having suffered the bulk of Western Front fighting on her own soil, and it was this trauma, more than any other single factor, that drove her negotiating posture at Paris and shaped the following decade's diplomacy.

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  • The Trauma Behind the Demand
  • Security Demands at the Conference Table
  • The Compromise and Its Costs
  • France's Search for Substitute Security After 1919
  • Assessing the Claim

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