About the lecture

In this module, we look in more detail at the Treaty of Versailles, focusing in particular on the provisions of the Treaty, its unpopularity in Germany in the 1920s and 30s, and its failure to prevent the rise of Hitler and the descent into a second European in 1939.

About the lecturer

David Stevenson is the Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. His main fields of interest lie in international relations in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the origins, course, and impact of the First World War. His publications include With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011), 1914-1918: the History of the First World War (2004), Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914 (1996), The First World War and International Politics (Oxford University Press, 1988), and his most recent book, 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (2017).