Course: World War 1: Paris 1919 - A New World Order?

Lasting territorial legacies of Paris 1919 Key Examples The following maps indicate some of the changes made to the world map at the end of the World War 1. The …

The League’s response to the Abyssinian crisis was widely seen as a disaster. Three contemporary reactions illustrate the point. Have a look at them and bear them in mind: in …

Was the United Nations something genuinely new, or just a revised version of the League of Nations? In this video, two Christians discuss the matter between themselves.

As the three ‘snapshots’ provided in the last three steps illustrate, the world has come a long way from the days of 1919, when the League of Nations was created. …

This second snapshot provides information on how the UN fights global disease. The emphasis is on polio, which the world community has almost eradicated. This snapshot consists of two short …

Whilst the League of Nations failed to prevent the next (even more catastrophic) world war, the idea of a world organisation survived. In Week 3, we will discuss how it …

In this video, Christian examines the WW1 treaty that perhaps had the most dramatic impact: the treaty signed at the Palace of Trianon.

In addition to re-drawing boundaries, the Paris Peace Conference engaged with many more matters – after four years of war, it re-established systems of international cooperation. In many areas, it …

The Paris Peace Conference set up the first permanent international court, but almost a century on, courts play a relatively marginal role in world affairs. Christian meets an expert on …

The League of Nations was one of the outcomes of the Paris Peace Conference, but the peacemakers spent most of their time discussing other matters – such as territorial disputes, …

The League of Nations is widely seen as a failure, and in many fields, it did fail. But it broke new ground, and it enjoyed many small successes. In this …

The Paris Peace Conference set up the League of Nations, the first ‘world organisation’. In this video, Christian introduces the League and explains why its establishment marked an important step …