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The treaties made at the Paris Peace conference in 1919-20 were replete with unstable compromises, reflecting more materialism than idealism. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1990
  • World Wars

The Paris Peace Conference produced not one but a family of treaties — Versailles, Saint-Germain, Trianon, Neuilly and Sèvres — each professing the idealism of Wilson's Fourteen Points while in practice distributing territory and resources according to the material interests of the victors.

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  • The Idealistic Promise
  • Versailles: Self-Determination Applied Selectively
  • Saint-Germain and Trianon: Nationality as Cover for Punishment
  • Neuilly and Sèvres: Spoils Among the Victors
  • The Instability of the Compromises

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