Tag: World War I

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2008-03 “Ethnonationalism has played a more profound role in modern history than is commonly understood, and the processes that led to the dominance of the ethnonational state and the separation of ethnic groups in Europe are likely to recur elsewhere.” “A familiar and influential narrative of 20th-century European history argues that nationalism twice led to war, in 1914 and then again in 1939. Thereafter, the story goes, Europeans concluded that nationalism was a danger and gradually abandoned it. In the postwar decades, Western Europeans enmeshed themselves in a web of transnational institutions, culminating in the European Union.” -- Jerry Z. Muller, history professor of Catholic University
2006-10-08 Members of the Turkish immigrant community are urged to vote at the November elections despite the fact the Labour PvdA and Christian Democrat CDA had dumped Turkish candidates in a dispute over the Armenian mass murders. The request was made at a meeting organised by the Turkish lobby group (IOT) in response to the dumping of the CDA and PvdA candidates, who had denied genocide took place in the Ottoman empire in World War I
2006 / 2006-12-31 After World War I, Germany's monetary system collapsed
1958 The head of the Carnegie endowment, Nicholas Murray Butler, used the endowment's funds to get the U.S. into World War I.
-- According to Rene Wormser in his book FOUNDATIONS: THEIR POWER AND INFLUENCE (1958)
1929 Charles G. Dawe was replaced as chairman of the committee of international bankers (appointed by the Allies) by Owen Young with direct support by J.P. Morgan.
1924 The Allies appointed a committee of international bankers, led by Charles G. Dawes (and accompanied by J.P. Morgan agent, Owen Young), to develop a plan to get reparations payments back on track.
1923-06 "If war had not come in 1914 in fierce and exaggerated form, the idea of an association of nations would probably have remained dormant, for great reforms seldom materialize except during great upheavals."
-- Colonel Edward M. House, writing in CFR's FOREIGN AFFAIRS
1923 Charles G. Dawes served on the Allied Reparations Commission starting in 1923.
1920 After the First World War, the League of Nations gives the mandate of Syria, including Lebanon, to France
1919 The Versailles Treaty of 1919 (which officially ended WWI) imposed a very heavy reparations burden on Germany, which required a repayment schedule of 132 billion gold marks per year.

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