started to command Germany to fulfill one task after another‚ all breaking the Treaty of Versailles’ regulations. First‚ Hitler built up his German military‚ breaking one of the rules of the treaty. As the German army grew stronger‚ Britain and France kept their distance and supported it‚ as Hitler declared it was merely for defensive purposes. Next‚ Hitler commanded his troops to re-enter the Rhineland‚ violating the treaty. Again‚ Britain and France did not take action because they understood Germany’s
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political and economical conditions of Germany after 1919. As a defeated country in WWI‚ Germany was forced to accept the Treaty of Versailles‚ which deprived 13.5% of the German territory and 12% of its population. Germany also lost all its overseas colonies‚ 16% of the coal producing land and half of its steel and iron industry. On top of these losses‚ the Versailles Treaty also stipulated that Germany would have to pay huge war reparations to the winning countries. All these caused great difficulties
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harshness of the Treaty of Versailles‚ the failure of the League of Nations linked to the isolation of the US‚ appeasement introduced by the British Prime Minister in the year 1937 and the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed between Hitler and Stalin on the 28th of August 1938 . Hitlers foreign policy had a huge impact on the outbreak of World War II because of its expansionism policy and the fact that Hitler wanted a German Reich. Hitlers other aims consisted of revenge for the Treaty of Versailles‚ a rearmament
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Context – what was happening at the time? • Germany had just been defeated in WWI. • The Treaty of Versailles was signed in1919. • It had been written by the ‘Big Three’ and imposed on Germany. • Clemenceau wanted to ruin Germany • The Treaty blamed Germany for the war • The Treaty made her pay ‘reparations’ for ALL the damage. • Germany lost lots of land. • Germany lost her armed forces. • The Germans hated the Treaty. Content – what is happening in the picture? • A young girl‚ beautiful but poorly
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take for Martin Luther King Jr. He used his ’ have a dream’ speech to achieve his desire.Another example is Hitler and the Nazi- Germany ultra-nationalists development who used very strong power to get what he wanted. After the treaty of Versailles had been signed. In the treaty there was a war guilt clause that basically blamed everything on the Germans. They were blamed for everything and even alienated due to the reason that the Germans had lost some of there land due to this clause. This alienation
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20th Century International Relations – 1919-1991 Were the Peace Treaties fair 1919-1923? Focus points: What were the motives and aims of the Big Three at Versailles? Why did the victors not get everything they wanted at Versailles? What was the impact of the Peace Treaty on Germany up to 1923? Could the treaties be justified at the time? Background to Versailles War was fought between two Alliance Groups: a) Triple Alliance: Germany‚ Austria‚ Hungary‚ Turkey‚ Italy‚ Bulgaria b) Triple Entente:
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NAZI GERMANY- PROBLEMS OF WEIMAR 1. CHAOS 2. CONSTITUTION 3. VERSAILLES 4. EXTREMISM 5. INFLATION 6. STRESSEMAN YEARS 1924-1929 CHAOS After the war Germany was left in chaos‚ law and order had broken down‚ there were armed ex-soldiers on the streets and violence was everwhere. The government was unable to cope with this as Germany was suffering a power vacuum- this meant that no one knew who was in charge since the Kaiser was removed. People were not used to democracy and wanted a central
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stability of the republic‚ the Treaty of Versailles resulted in the republic itself been built upon resentment and failure. In turn‚ this saw the ‘stab in the back’ myth take its toll on the army and saw the public reel in humiliation and anger. This was a bigger and more significant threat to the stability of the republic than any political violence could possibly be. The extreme right wing was not slow in letting people know of their disapproval of the Treaty of Versailles. To the right‚ the peace
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President Woodrow Wilson’s "Fourteen Points". However‚ the Treaty of Versailles‚ sharply differed from Wilson’s points‚ and Germany‚ who felt betrayed‚ denounced the treaty as "morally invalid." Henig claimed that the fact that it did not survive the 1920s intact stemmed‚ not so much from the terms of the peace treaties themselves but from the reluctance of political leaders in the inter-war period to enforce them2. Overall‚ the Treaty of Versailles was flawed to the extent that instead of preventing future
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During the early 1920s‚ World War I had just ended‚ and many countries were not happy with the outcome. The Treaty of Versailles was a poor settlement to World War I‚ and left three particular countries unhappy; Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan. The Treaty of Versailles left many limitations on Germany‚ and failed to give Italy and Japan the recognition they deserved. During the 1930s‚ these countries decided to take action‚ and fight for what they wanted. Though both appeasement and collective security
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