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 unsatisfactory
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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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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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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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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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apparent in a large ‘alliance’. This happened to be peace and the alliance it was part of was the Big Four‚ who collaborated with 32 other nations from around the world to produce several 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
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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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Already disheartened by the major embarrassment they experienced when they were defeated in World War I‚ Germany was only further degraded by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was forced to take full responsibility for the devastating war and had to pay immense reparations for it. In response‚ the entire country took a turn for the worst‚ with their economy in shambles‚ significant territorial losses‚ and their military a mere fraction of its original size. Germans felt they had been mistreated and
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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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The Women’s March on Versailles is known by many names‚ such as The October March‚ The October Days‚ or The March on Versailles. This march was one of the earliest events of the French Revolution. It was the morning of October 5th‚ 1789‚ when groups of women in the marketplace were rioting over the high prices and scarcity of bread. At the end of the Ancien Regime‚ there was a rising fear of famine because of the lower strata of the Third Estate. There were constant rumors of the “Pacte de Famine”
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