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Sunday, August 15, 2010

What military retrictions should have been placed on Germany after World war 1 AND WHY (details below)?

my class is simulating the Treaty of Versailles conference and i am representing Serbia

i have to create a small 5 minute speech with the follwing criteria:


1. SHOULD THE FORMER CENTRAL POWERS (germany and Austria Hungary) BE ALLOWED ANY MILITARY CAPABILITY?
-Is Germany allowed any “military capability”? Define specifically
-What happens to demobilized soldiers?
-Treatment of Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria?

2. SHOULD ALL NATIONS HAVE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS? (The right to go anywhere in peace or war?)
-International zone?
-Canals? Kiel, Panama, Suez…
-Straits? Bosporous, Skagerrat…
-International rivers? Danube, Elbe, St. Lawrence…
-Does any nation “patrol” the seas?

3. SHOULD THERE BE WORLD WIDE DISARMAMENT? (No standing armies, destruction of all offensive weapons, no weapons of war to be further produced).

-Do the same restrictions apply to: Germany only; other Central Powers; ALL powers?






Answer :
Is this a simulation of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference? It was certainly not all dispassionate objective logic and fairness involved; Conversely, the backbone and muscle of that conference actually was ego, personalities, politics of numbers of population, machinations of biased allied nation's media, blackout of representation by Germany in the conference, blackout of information and events happening contra-Germany in the conference, and psychology of scapegoating everything on Germany mixed with ragefull revenge that made the Treaty of Versailles.

If your "simulation" is an alternative debate as to alternative outcomes that could have and should have been, then obviously, there should have been worldwide restrictions to prevent world war instead of flirting with setting up a new world war backlash.

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