Paris Peace Conference

"The payoff for all this sacrifice was going to come, nationalists hoped, in the postwar settlement hammered out at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the Treaty of Versailles was composed. That was where the rules of the new international order would be written. The question at hand was what would happen to the colonies of the defeated powers—Germany and the Ottoman Empire. But the larger question was the fate of empire in general. Getting to Paris, and getting to Wilson, became the chief goal of nationalists everywhere."

Daniel Immerwahr. How to Hide an Empire (Locais do Kindle 1906-1910). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Edi...

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