(Doc A) Americans who oppose the Versaille Treaty are afraid of losing sovereignty. Americans who opposed the Versaille Treaty are also fear if they join another alliance‚ the League of Nations‚ they will be drug into another war. For example‚ the Woman’s Peace Party was divided on the issue of the League of Nations (Doc H). The women believed that the alliance the United States joins should be an “adequate international organization”. The Versaille Treaty is ineffective because it does not offer
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with many different events factoring in. These events range from the betrayal and humiliation many Germans felt after World War 1‚ and the fact that the treaty of Versailles was itself a failure and stemming from that failure the failure of the League of Nations‚ which had no real power. Or the recent Great Depression pushing countries to the brink‚ or Germany’s goals of a united German empire which were spearheaded by the Nazi party and Hitler‚ the rise of many other fascist states including Italy and
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Germans as their military was not allowed in the land in which they owned. By giving back all the land that Germany had taken from different countries allowed power to be spread more evenly across the rest of Europe. It also gave smaller‚ developing nations such as Poland‚ Czechoslovakia and Hungary a chance to govern on their own without the Germans overthrowing them. However‚ there were often disputes between the countries‚ concerning the distribution of territory in the Treaty. The Treaty of Versailles
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many visionary ones from the beginning of World War I‚ to the Versailles Treaty‚ in 1919. Examples of his visionary policies include the declaration of American neutrality‚ the declaration of war against Germany‚ and the establishment of the League of Nations. At the beginning of World War I it was said that America was bias towards Great Britain instead of Germany because of the trading that occurred between them. However‚ all American’s had different preferences as to who they would like to win
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fourteen rules for nations to abide by to maintain the peace. The first point dealt with abolishing secret treaties between governments. A lot of WWI might have been contained had there not been secret agreements and doctrines between nations that were not disclosed to the public. The second point dealt with the absolute freedom of navigation in the oceans and seas outside of territorial waters. The sinking of ships like
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intellectual supporters believed that this “most terrible and disastrous wars” could be countenanced only by perceiving of it as the harbinger of eternal peace. The utopian spirit of the war took concrete form in Wilson’s proposal of a postwar federation of nations‚ in itself not a utopian scheme but one which‚ from the first‚ was freighted with utopian aspirations. Though Wilson may have been an effective war president by delegating responsibilities to those qualified his aspirations for a perfect world and
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it to anything other than what they already are. He felt he had already compromised enough‚ letting France‚ Great Britain‚ and Italy scrap most of his 14 Points; he wasn’t about to let his own country throw out the one thing he still had: the League of Nations. A big part of why Wilson accounted for the majority of the blame in the failure of the Treaty of Versailles was that he refused to compromise on any parts of the Treaty‚ even if they weren’t his own ideas. He himself said that he would rather
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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II * Treaty of Versailles In 1919‚ Lloyd George of England‚ Orlando of Italy‚ Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson from the US met to discuss how Germany was to be made to pay for the damage world war one had caused. Georges Clemenceau wanted revenge. He wanted to be sure that Germany could never start another war again. The German people were very unhappy about the treaty and thought that it was too harsh. Germany could not afford to pay the money and during the 1920s
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been the triumph‚ that would grow to obliterate Wilson. President Wilson and it would settle worldly issues controlled by the great powers. Wilson finally gained a conquest at the table when Old World diplomats agreed in 1919. They were to create the League Covenant‚ which was the main component to the final peace treaty. But after this was done President Wilson was urged back home to serious hostility. Directed by Lodge‚ the irreconcilables and the Battalion of Death destined the treaty and it’s envisioned
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was attended by nations of all continents and military operations interested most of the planet. The War broke out the first of September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany in the west and the 1937 invasion of the Republic of China by the Empire of Japan in the east. During this period‚ the international system was affected by enormous changes. A climate of contempt and terror of war spread everywhere. Unfortunately this popular mood did not alter the selfish desire of nation states between
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