The Day The Great War Ended, 24 July 1923 Av Jay (Charles J Stille Professor Of History Emeritus Charles J Stille Professor Of History Emeritus Yale U

The Day The Great War Ended, 24 July 1923 Av Jay (Charles J Stille Professor Of History Emeritus Charles J Stille Professor Of History Emeritus Yale U

On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome......
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On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty they signed fixed the boundaries of present-day Greece and Turkey, and marked a beginning of a new phase in their history. That was its major achievement, but it came at a high price. The Treaty contained within it a Compulsory Population Exchange agreement. By that measure, Greek-Orthodox citizens of Turkey, with the exception of those living in Constantinople, lost the right of citizenship and residence in that state. So did Muslim citizens of Greece, except for residents of Western Thrace. This exchange of nearly two million people, introduced to the peace conference by Nobel Prize winner an
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On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty they signed fixed the boundaries of present-day Greece and Turkey,and marked a beginning of a new phase in their history. That was its major achievement, but it came at a high price. The Treaty contained within it a Compulsory Population Exchange agreement. By that measure, Greek-Orthodox citizens of Turkey, with the exception of those living in Constantinople, lost the right of citizenship and residence in that state. So did Muslim citizens of Greece, except for residents of Western Thrace. This exchange of nearly two million people, introduced to the peace conference by Nobel Prize winner and humanitarianFridtjof Nansen, provided a solution to the immense refugee problem arising out of the Greek-Turkish war. At the same time, it introduced into international law a definition of citizenship defined not by language or history or ethnicity, but solely by religion. This set a precedent for ethniccleansing followed time and again later in the century and beyond.The second price of peace was the burial of commitments to the Armenian people that they would have a homeland in the lands from which they had been expelled, tortured and murdered in the genocide of 1915. This book tells the story of the peace conference, and its outcome. It shows how peace came before justice, and how it set in motion forces leading to the global war that followed in 1939.

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Oppdag historien bak "The Day The Great War Ended, 24 July 1923" av Jay Winter

Den 24. juli 1923 ble den siste avtalen som avsluttet fiendtlighetene i den store krigen signert i Lausanne, Sveits. I The Day The Great War Ended, tar Jay Winter oss med på en reise tilbake til denne skjellsettende dagen. Boken gir en dypere forståelse av hvordan diplomater, statsmenn og soldater fra hele Europa samlet seg ved bredden av Genevasjøen for å markere slutten på et tiår med vold.

Hva kan du forvente fra boken?

  • Historisk kontekst: Utforsk hvordan avtalen fastsatte grensene for dagens Hellas og Tyrkia, og hva dette betydde for regionens fremtid.
  • Demografiske endringer: Lær om den tvungne befolkningsutvekslingen som påvirket nesten to millioner mennesker, og hvordan dette satte presedens for internasjonal lovgivning.
  • Urettferdighetens pris: Boken belyser også de bruddene på løfter til det armenske folket, som ble ofre for folkemordet i 1915.

Jay Winter gir oss ikke bare en beretning om fredskonferansen, men også en kritisk analyse av hvordan fred ofte kommer før rettferdighet. Dette er en viktig lesning for alle som ønsker å forstå de komplekse dynamikkene i europeisk historie og de langsiktige konsekvensene av krig.

Hvorfor velge "The Day The Great War Ended"?

Denne boken er ikke bare en historisk beretning; den er et vitnesbyrd om menneskelig motstandskraft og de utfordringene som følger med å bygge fred etter konflikt. Med sin grundige forskning og engasjerende skrivestil, vil Jay Winters verk fange både historieentusiaster og de som ønsker å forstå dagens politiske landskap.

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