Intro; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Carthaginian Peace-Or What?; 1 The Verdicts on the Treaty; 2 The Statesmen; 3 The Council of Four; 4 The Content of the Treaty; 5 The Reaction; References; Chapter 2 The Conference and the Treaty; 1 The Dramatis Personae: Reinterpreting the Big Four; 2 Interpreting the Big Three; President Wilson's Fourteen Points; 3 The Interaction; 4 The Treaty; References; Chapter 3 "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble": Years of Frustration in the Early 1920s; 1 The American Withdrawal from Europe

2 The League of Nations Begins Work3 Reparations: The Impossible Quest for Agreement; References; Chapter 4 More Troubles; 1 Disarmament; 2 The Russian Problem; 3 The Road to Genoa and Rapallo; 4 Frontiers; 5 Poland; 6 In Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 The Dawn Breaks: Progress Towards Peace; 1 The Road to Dawes and Locarno; 2 The Briand-Stresemann-Chamberlain Partnership: The "Locarnites"; 3 The Locarno Conference; 4 The Spirit of Locarno; References; Chapter 6 Peace and Prosperity Come to Europe-For the Time Being; 1 The New Order; 2 Running Sores; Reparations

The RhinelandEastern Europe; Disarmament; 3 The Soviet Union; 4 The Young Commission and the Hague Conference: The Locarnites' Last Hurrah; 5 Blueprints for Peace; References; Chapter 7 Things Fall Apart: The Great Crash and the Onset of Disaster; 1 The Great Crash and Its Impact; 2 Further Misfortunes; 3 How Seriously to Take the Nazis?; 4 The Disarmament Running Sore; 5 The Growing Threat to Weimar; 6 Dr. Brüning Comes to Chequers; 7 The League Weakens: The Japanese Invade Manchuria; 8 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 Götterdämmerung: Hitler and the End of the Versailles System

1 The Crisis Worsens2 The Lausanne Conference and the End of Reparations; 3 Disarmament Again; 4 The End of the Weimar Republic; 5 The Third Reich Begins; 6 Western Weakness: The March to Appeasement; 7 Adolf Hitler: Schemer or Gambler?; 8 A Last Word; References; References; Index