On the 28th June 1919‚ Germany resentfully signed the most famous treaty ever‚ Versailles. Although years of readjusting the treaty followed‚ this essay will focus mainly on the strengths and weaknesses of the 440 articles in 1919. The Treaty followed a massive war‚ with huge human sacrifice. It was supposed to be the Treaty to end all wars and give security to the countries involved. The overwhelming task that laid ahead for Woodrow Wilson (America)‚ Lloyd George (Great Britain)‚ Clemenceau (France)
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The affect that the Treaty of Versailles had on Germany The affect the Treaty of Versailles had on Germany is truly eye opening and amazing. “Viewing Germany as the chief instigator of the conflict‚ the European Allied Powers decided to impose particularly stringent treaty obligations upon the defeated Germany.”1 After the treaty was in place Germany had experienced very difficult times economically and politically. From the reparations they owed to the land that was compensated‚ Germany struggled
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History Unit 3 Study Notes Treaty of Versailles: Many Germans thought that they had been cheated on. They believed that they never actually lost the war and just made an agreement to end the war. Many soldiers then joined the right hand parties such as the Freikorps or the Nazi party. Economic Problems: After World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles‚ Germany’s economy went to bare minimum. The government could not support its citizens and the people in Germany did not like them either. Right
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Fourteen Points into the Treaty of Versailles. His Fourteen Points outlined changes to be made to countries involved in the war and the world in general‚ to help prevent future wars. However‚ Wilson became too attached to one of his points and sacrificed most of the others for this point. When the treaty was finished‚ Germany‚ who had not been allowed to participate in negotiations‚ was appalled and angry that they saw almost none of Wilson’s Fourteen Points in the Treaty of Versailles. Woodrow Wilson’s
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The Treaty of Versailles is the main cause of World War II. The Treaty itself was a peace treaty that ended the war with Germany and allied nations. With the punishments Germany had to do as a result of the Treaty‚ German Citizens thought they were being too harsh and they were very unhappy. The German citizens became unsatisfied with the government‚ became poor‚ and had a great economic depression much like the United States at the time. Germany had to take full blame for World War I‚ pay thirty-two
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Final BCR I learned from the simulation that making decisions on the Treaty of Versailles is a very hard decision since the Countries of America‚ France and Britain have very different points of view on how harsh Germany should be punished. Each country has different points of view of how Germany should be punished for World War 1 because each of the countries were affected by Germany differently. For example‚ France wanted to punish Germany very harshly because Germany caused the most damage
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peace terms which eventually formed The Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was led by the leaders of the four main powers at the time in the treaty. These were Georges Clemenceau of France‚ Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.A and David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom. These three powers were the main contributors to the treaty and all held their own place in it regarding what they wanted out of it. The whole ‘point’ or reason of the existence of the treaty was to have ‘revenge’ or punish Germany
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The pact of Versailles was fairly negative to Germany on the grounds that it destroyed their economy even more. The terms for the treaty had been for Germany to take responsibility for their actions. The treaty of Versailles called to take away German territories and colonies‚ reduce Germany’s armed forces‚ make them disarm and to also have them pay reparations to the allies for the damage caused by the war. Germany’s economy was already in a bad shape and the 6‚600 million pounds they had to pay
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The Treaty of Versailles did more to harm the peace than support it because of reparations and imperialism. According to TCI‚ pg 318‚ “In addition‚ the treaty required Germany to pay $33 billion in reparations to the Allies. Reparations are payments demanded of a defeated nation by the victor in a war to offset the cost of the war. Germans resented both the war-guilt clause and the reparations‚ rightly fearing that the payments would cripple their economic recovery from the war.” This was a problem
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After World War I was fought the Treaty of Versailles was created and signed. Several things were accomplished with this treaty; the main accomplishment‚ in my opinion‚ being the economically crippling reparations placed upon Germany. The first step in economically damaging Germany was by using this treaty to assign sole reasonability of causing World War I on the shoulders of Germany. By allocating the blame to all of Germany the victors could force Germany to accept responsibility for all the damage
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