Treaty Of Versailles And The First World War

The First World War was once thought to be ‘the war to end all wars’. In an attempt to make this so, the Allies convened in Paris for the Paris Peace Conference, and ultimately created the Treaty of Versailles. Its terms were harsh and sent Germany into hyper-inflation, with help from the reparations that had to be paid. This treaty also placed an immense amount of guilt for the whole war and loses on Germany in the War Guilt Clause, which created further bitterness within the German borders. The unsteady economic and political structure in Germany made its citizens lust for change through any means possible. Consequently the German government lost much support and German people increasingly turned to more radical political parties, gaining popularity with Communists on the left wing and National Socialist party on the right side wing, with its charismatic leader - world war I. veteran Adolf Hitler. Because of this treaty Adolf Hitler’s economic plan, proposed while he was seeking political election in Bundestag, was focused on rebuilding and reclaiming Germany, so much in debt and misery. This went hand in hand with the nationalist ideas of the Nazi party. Adolf Hitler later blamed the republic and its democracy for oppressive terms of this
treaty.
Treaty of Versailles was a major turning point in history because not only did it mark the end of the World War I, but also influenced, directly or indirectly, to the greatest war conflict in the history of humanity- World War
II.