The world will never see another peace conference like the one which took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world’s major leaders—including Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau, prime minister of France—met to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One. They faced huge issues and, as the weeks went by, their agenda grew. Because Paris saw such a concentration of power, the world’s problems came before it and petitioners for political, social, and economic causes came to get a hearing.
Margaret MacMillan received her Ph.D. from Oxford University and was the first woman ever to win the BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. She is also the granddaughter of former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles.
Lecture 1 The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Lecture 2 The Peace Conference Meets in Paris
Lecture 3 New Forces in International Relations
Lecture 4 The League of Nations and Mandates
Lecture 5 Germany
Lecture 6 New Nations
Lecture 7 Poland
Lecture 8 Italy
Lecture 9 Greece and Turkey
Lecture 10 Palestine and the Jewish Homeland
Lecture 11 The Arab Middle East
Lecture 12 Germany’s Allies: Bulgaria, Austria, and Hungary
Lecture 13 The Far East
Lecture 14 The End