What Are The Effects Of The Treaty Of Versailles

World War Two was one of the biggest wars in known history with over 60 million deaths or three percent of the world's population at the time. A major cause of this massive war was the Treaty of Versailles. I'm going to tell you about how the Treaty of Versailles impacted the war economically, geographically, and politically. We can stop ourselves from making by looking what people in the past did wrong like the gun laws in japan.

The treaty of versailles caused a lot of economical issues that led to World War Two. The Treaty of Versailles blamed World War Two entirely on Germany. “Germany had to pay huge sums in reparations. Instead of raising taxes Germany sold war bonds to the public but they were still in a massive debt. In 1921, this amount was set at £6.6 billion; a sum that Germany could not pay”(The Holocaust Explained). This is when the nazis rose to power, they told germany what they desired like getting out of debt.

The Treaty of Versailles also caused a lot of geographic issues that sparked World War Two. The Treaty made germany a small chunk their territory called the Rhineland. Also Germany and Austria get separated into multiple different countries.” Hitler declared that Germany was overcrowded and
The government of the time refused to sign it, but they resigned so the incoming government had no choice but to sign it. People like General Ludendorff started saying that Germans government lost the war for them not their troops, and that the government was stabbing the Germans in the back. This led to the German people distrusting the Weimar republic and not supporting them. Also the old kaiser was wanted for a trail, but the dutch would not let them take him this eliminated any chance of monarchy in Germany. Germany was also isolated in Europe and where outcastes in political affairs which lead to much distrust in the Allies. So Hitler started getting allies towards the