Seeds of future conflicts sown in postwar settlement from "summary" of The Origins of the First World War by Annika Mombauer
The peace settlement that followed the First World War can be seen as a breeding ground for future conflicts. The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, imposed harsh penalties on Germany, which many Germans viewed as unjust and humiliating. This sense of resentment and injustice created fertile ground for the rise of extremist ideologies like Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s. Furthermore, the redrawing of national boundaries in Europe after the war created new ethnic tensions and territorial disputes. The breakup of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires led to the creation of new states with diverse populations, often leading to internal strife and external conflicts. For example, the creation of Czechoslovakia from parts of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire left large German and Hungarian...
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