Giving Up Disputed Territories: Alsace-Lorraine (An Outlook to a Resolved Conflict)
Giving Up Disputed Territories: Alsace-Lorraine (An Outlook to a Resolved Conflict)

Summary/Abstract: The text presents, with a significant amount of details, the very long and complex history of the territorial conflict for Alsace-Lorraine. The first chapter presents the opening stages of the dispute (in Ancient Times, Middle Ages and Early Modern Times). The second chapter deals with the history of the territorial dispute in the era of the French Revolution, of the 1st French Empire and of the 1848 Revolution. The third chapter concentrates the attention to the evolution of the Alsace-Lorraine problem in the era of Bismarck, and also along the early part of the 20th century. The fourth (and final) chapter presents the problem of Alsace-Lorraine in the context of World War II and of the events after World War II.

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