Treaty of Versailles

The end of "The Great War", also called the the war to end all wars, and is known today as World War I.

Clemenceau wanted to punish Germany serverly because george clemenceau was the leader of France at the treaty of Versailles, and most of the war was fought in France, leaving an area the size of wales destroyed.also Clemenceau was fuming at what he was left with so wanted Germany to suffer as much as possible to get his own back on Germany.

The Versailles Treaty created peace only because it ended the fighting. All it did was punish Germany for its part in the war.

The effects of World War II had far-reaching implications for most of the world. Many millions of lives had been lost as a result of the war. Germany was divided into four quadrants, which were controlled by the Allied Powers --- the United States, United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union --- and itself was one of the survivors. The war can be identified to varying degrees as the catalyst for many continental, national and local phenomena, such as the redrawing of European borders, the birth of the United Kingdom's welfare state, the communist takeover of China and Eastern Europe, the creation of Israel, and the division of Germany and Korea and later of Vietnam. In addition, many organizations have roots in the Second World War; for example, the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund. Technologies, such as nuclear fission, the electronic computer and the jet engine, also appeared during this period.

A multipolar world was replaced by a bipolar one dominated by the two most powerful victors, the United States and Soviet Union, which became known as the superpowers.

Estimates range from about 50-70 million killed in World War 2. The Wikipedia article "World War II Casualties" favours the relatively high figure of 72 million. Of these, 61 million were on the Allied side and 11 million were on the Axis side. The article gives a figure of 23 million dead for the Soviet Union and 20 million for China. These figures of course include civilian dead. (Note that the figure for China was recently revised sharply upwards from earlier estimates of about 11 million).

For Germany the overall total is given as just under 7.4 million.

When scholarly sources differ on the number of deaths in a country, a range of war losses is given, in order to inform readers that the death toll is uncertain or disputed. One also needs to know whether the statistics, especially for civilian dead, include deaths from war-related famine and disease.

The U.S. senate, at the time, was composed of a majority of Republicans. These Senators believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on the Germans. On the other hand, President Wilson was in favor of the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson's inability to compromise with these Republican senators with the amendment of the Fourteen Points as proposed by Wilson was the main reason why the Treaty of Versailles was defeated. The U.S. senate, at the time, was composed of a majority of Republicans. These Senators believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on the Germans. On the other hand, President Wilson was in favor of the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson's inability to compromise with these Republican senators with the amendment of the Fourteen Points as proposed by Wilson was the main reason why the Treaty of Versailles was defeated.

it's the treaty of Versailles and its a peace treaty

According to the Treaty, Germany had to take responsibility for the war. This angered Germany and contributed to World War II.

In the period just after Germany's surrender, Woodrow Wilson was confident about achieving a just peace. Both Germany and the Allies had publicly accepted his Fourteen Points, containing his ideals of the new world order, as the basis for negotiations conducted in Paris. The Treaty of Versailles, signed with Germany in a suburb of Paris and ending the First World War, was not what Wilson expected, with its war guilt clause and reparations. He believed that the League of Nations, which was added to the various treaties ending the war, would redeem the failures of the Paris Peace Conference.

But the US never joined the League of Nations because Congress never ratified the Treaty of Versailles. Serious problems with Republicans and a presidential failure to compromise ended with the rejection of the treaty by the Senate. When the Treaty of Versailles was voted down for the last time, Wilson's dream of a new world order died.

The end of the war brought no respite from the forces that divided American society. Workers were determined to regain the purchasing power they had lost to inflation. Employers were equally determined to halt or reverse the wartime gains labor had made. Radicals saw the possibility of a socialist revolution. Black servicemen were reluctant to return to their inferior prewar status. The "red scare" prompted government officials and private citizens alike to embark on a campaign of repression.

But in many ways, the United States benefited a great deal from the war. By 1919, the American economy was the world's largest by far. Many leading corporations improved productivity and management techniques, and American banks were highly influential in international finance. This combination of economic factors triggered an extraordinary burst of growth in the next decade. The war, however, exposed class, ethnic, and racial tensions that did not go away.

Japan had nothing to do with the treaty.

The result was devastating for Europe. Versailles, the primary short term result of the First world war became to a large extent the cause of the Second World War. Nationalist and revanchist feelings in Germany arose due to the treatment at Versailles, allowing Hitler to gain power and pursue his agressive foreign policy, not only aiming to revise Versailles but expand far beyond, causing the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland when it was too late for Britain and France to react.

There were many demands of the treaty of Versailles but the main three were that Germany had to pay reperations of £6600 million to the countries that it went to war against. Germany also had 13% of its territory taken away, this included Danzig, the polish corridor and the Ruhr. The other main demand was that the Germans had to take the full blame for the war and this was called the war guilt clause.

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The Treaty of Versailles specifically stated that Germany must surrender all land to Britain, France and its neighbouring countries, disband from being a country and every male (former) German citizen must cut off his penis and make a stew from it. This stew must then be fed to the family of that person as a symbolic reference (similar to the Last Supper) to the ending of the First World War.

The Fourteen Point Plan was devised by USA leader Woodrow Wilson, and simply stated fourteen times, that different countries were stupid, twats, arseholes, full of gays... et cetera.

EG

1. Britain should be rechristened 'Poofterland'

2. France has idiots for leaders

3. Hungarians enjoy sucking their fathers dicks.

and so on.

Hope I helped!

Germany was force to take full responsibility of World War I even though it was Sumeria's fault...

The Treaty of Versailles was the Treaty the Allied Powers forced Germany to sign after World War I. Not World War II. The Treaty blamed Germany for the entire war and made the Germans pay enormous fines. Germany wasn't aloud to anex any more territory and it's Armed Forces had to stay at a certain number.

Hitler did not destroy the Treaty- he simply ignored it.

The Treaty imposed harsh limitations on Germany, including total disarmament of their people, and a severely restricted military. The German Army wasn't allowed to have a General Staff- basically a council of high-ranking generals who would formulate strategies and battle plans. The military also wasn't allowed to use certain technologies, like machine guns and submarines. France and (to a lesser extent) the UK hoped that making Germany very weak would prevent the start of another war.

Almost immediately, and long before Hitler took control, Germany ignored parts of the Treaty. Germany kept their General Staff- they simply renamed it to "Troop Office". They also built up their military, although not to the same levels as before World War I. They invented new kinds of machine guns to get around the ban.

After coming to power, Hitler went even further with it. Part of the Treaty disallowed Germany from having any military forces in the regions bordering France- and Hitler openly ignored it. He also started building up the air force and navy again. The last violation he made was in 1938 when Germany annexed Austria, which was expressly forbidden by the Treaty.

About a year later World War II started and the Treaty of Versailles was officially moot.

That Germany was being Punished for something it was not responsible for. The Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany, and Germany alone for the outbreak of WWI, when this was not the case. Yes Germany wanted war, but it began with an assassination in Austri and, many different nations joined the war for different reasons. Therefore the war guilt clause of the treaty, was arguably the most difficult for the German people to swallow. The War guilt clause hand in hand with huge reparations, consequently had an immense impact on the coming years. It is believed to be one of the direct causes for the Kapp Putch therefore the rise of nationalism and ultimately the coming of Adolf hitler to power in 1933.

The Americans did not accept it. The Republicans got back at President Wilson by not signing the treaty. they did this because Wilson refused to take any republicans over when he went to sign the treaty, which was a fatal error by Wilson. This also meant we did not join the league of nations.

Answer this question… Humiliation and resentment for losing power and having to pay damages

The Treaty of Versailles was signed following World War I. It had many provisions, including punishments for Germany. The US Congress did not ratify the Treaty because they were for isolationism, and felt that becoming part of the League of Nations, a provision of the treaty, would draw the US into further wars.

The treaty needed to be less harsh. It had basically stripped Germany from its power by reducing their army to 10,000 men, banning their air force, taking a whole lot of their land, blaming the ENTIRE Great War (World War I) on Germany. They also put Germany in huge debt, forcing them to pay for the costs of the war. But the most ironic failure of the treaty is that Germany doesn't follow them; eventually they break it and start taking over neighboring countries, which is World War II. Its ironic because the whole purpose of the Versailles Treaty was to prevent another war such as World War I from happening ever again. The treaty had no weapons to defend other countries, and get rid of the guy trying to start the war.

Germany was the one who was blamed for ww1 they had to pay reparation to the Allied Powers. That's what the Treaty of Versailles is about it what they had to sign to keep peace but they had to pay the reparations of they would have been attacked by the allied powers till they did.

Germany had to shorten their army or military.

The 14th point in Wilson's 14 Point speech was used in the Treaty of Versailles. It was put into effect with the formation of the League of Nations.