announced the German rearmament and conscription which was against the Treaty of Versailles but no action was taken against him‚ not even a moral condemnation by the League of Nation which‚ though it was a pathetic attempt to stop the nation doing what it did by scolding it‚ should have been done to show Hitler that the League of Nations were against it. However you could argue that there no longer was a Treaty of Versailles because the allies had killed it long before‚ for example in 1924 they had re-negotiated
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What were the successes and failures of the League of Nations in the 1920s? The League of Nations could stop small wars and improved some people’s lives. But it could not defend the Treaty of Versailles‚ get disarmament‚ or stop powerful countries. It stopped some wars – e.g. it arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands (1921) and stopped the invasion of Bulgaria by Greece (1925). In 1928‚ the League arranged the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which outlawed war. The
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Treaty of Versailles was signed by all the allies of Germany on June 28‚ 1919. Germany was the one that surrendered because they pretty much knew they could not win the war. President Woodrow Wilson listed five thing for the peace he ended the secret treaties between
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Assess and analyse the positions of the Big Three as they came to the Paris Peace Conference. Examine what came out of the Treaty of Versailles and explain the differences between the two. With the First World War ending in November 1918 with an armistice‚ a treaty was called for by the victorious nations with the aim of making and keeping peace between the five nations of France‚ Germany‚ Britain‚ Austria-Hungary and the United States. The three main victors were France‚ Britain and the
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caused by many different reasons. It was caused psychologically by: Adolf Hitler’s actions; Anti-Semitism; and totalitarianism. Politically it was caused by: the Treaty of Versailles; the failure of the League of Nations; and failure of appeasement. Finally it was caused geographically by: imperialistic Japan; the Treaty of Versailles; and the positioning of the United States. World War II was caused psychologically by the actions of Hitler‚ the influence of Anti-Semitism‚ and the influence of totalitarianism
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vengeance which will have been brought about by various factors‚ but the most important being the Versailles Treaty. Of course‚ both wars were not fought by the same ‘teams’‚ albeit the fact that there was always clearly a Franco-British alliance against Germany‚ players like Russia and Italy fought on both sides. The theatre of war was also geographically similar but considerably different. After the Versailles treaty in 1919‚ Marechal Foch would qualify prophetically pronounce these words “This is not
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Germany’s violence early on in the war caused the United States to enter the war on the Allies side. President Wilson had tried to mediate between the two alliances but Germany did not accept this proposal. The Treaty of Versailles was fair to Germany because they ignored Wilson’s Call for Peace and Germany’s violent tactics called a need for the treaty to be made in order to end World War I. President Wilson did not want the United States to enter World War I when it initially started because it
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Causes of World War 2 Even though some people may believe that the Treaty of Versailles was the main cause of World War 2 but‚ the main cause of World War 2 is the rise of Adolf Hitler because he persuaded the citizens of Germany and mesmerized them with his powerful speeches to join his cause‚ and he broke the Treaty of Versailles by building up an army and annexing neighboring countries that he thought was his. The primary cause of World War 2 can be seen from a psychological perspective; Adolf
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on September 1‚ 1939‚ which was the start of the war. The Treaty of Versailles has been said to be the most important‚ indirect cause of WWII. After Germany was defeated in World War I‚ they were forced via the Treaty to pay heavy reparations to the victors. Their economy could not take the pressure from the harsh reparations and it quickly fell
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that the treaty of Versailles was not fair to their country he started revealing and sometimes he break the treaty of Versailles for example in 1933 Hitler started to build his army and telling all men they needed to join the army by using propaganda‚ Secret police and concentration camps that was called conscription as a result in 1935 Hitler told the world about his huge army but the other countries didn’t respond to his consequences so Hitler kept breaking the treaty of Versailles.
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