Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the final agreement reached at the end of World War I. Many of its conditions were considered unfair to the Germans, and so the Germans resented the Treaty. Hitler was able to feed off of this public resentment when he was gathering support.

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AMerica wanted to stay with the policy of neutrality, therefore they wanted to stay out of the war

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America's role in the Treaty of Versailles was to rebuild the European economy, promote free tried and create appropriate mandates for former colonies considered by President Woodrow Wilson. The president signed the treaty, but did not want the United States foreign policy decided by another body, therefore later rejecting the treaty.

Wilson irritated the other members of the "Big Four." They saw him as a self-righteous leader who always said he was worrying about "all mankind." They compared the Points that Wilson had announced from Washington with the Commandements given to Moses on Mount Sinai. "Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points." Clemenceau sneered.

In fact, majority of the articles of the Versailles treaty relate to Germany. One important thing to remember is that there were no German representatives allowed into the committee deciding upon the terms of the treaty. Two of the most prominent articles relating to Germany are Article 43 and Article 231. Article 43 demands that in a certain are designated in Germany (the Rhine), the creation and training of armed forces are forbidden. This is prominent because this leaves France safe from German forces and also leaves Germany with its hands tied behind its back and other countries deciding what to do with the affairs within the country. This is very representative of the severe oppression Germany faced in the treaty. Article 231, the most important, demands that "Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war". This article makes Germany the scapegoat of all the destruction the war caused. This, going on with the previous point, also serves as an act of oppression to Germany.

Wilson could have compromised with the Senate and been willing to make changes to the provisions he wished to ask for in the treaty before he went to Versailles. He could have taken a couple, more-important Senators with him to the meeting. The Senate was also suspicious of the League of Nations. They worried that if they signed the Treaty, the League would get the US involved in later world conflicts.

positive effects: ended world war I, gave nations national identity and independence, and limited the powers of Germany Negative effects: eventually started world war II, gave rise to Hitler, and placed "war guilt" on Germany

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th June 1919.

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When the United States Senate stalled over the acceptance of The Treaty of Versailles, Wilson became determined. He argued the points on a moral basis. The US did not sign.

The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept full responsibility for World War One, even though it only entered the war due to its alliance with Austria-Hungary. The decision was made to have the treaty be signed at Versailles so that it would symbolically undo the Treaty of Versailles that had been signed at the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. At the end of that war, France had lost and had been forced to pay reparations and give up territory to Germany, and the French desire for revenge for both the Franco-Prussian War AND World War One motivated negotiations at the 1917 peace conference.

No - not a bit. Unrelated event. The depression was caused by a variety of factors but mainly by poor economic policies. Among these being: high taxes (very high marginal rates in the USA and other nations that reduced capital formation), protectionist trade legislation (this vicious beast continuously has to be beaten back as it is promoted constantly by 'compasionate' types, liberals, and unions), weather problems (drought, flood - of unual intensity) and collapse of various strong currency valuations (mainly German but also prevalent in many other nations such as Hungary and other small nations). None of these problems were directly a result of the treaty although its extremely harsh terms against Germany have often been stated as reasons for the depression of 1929 - 1939. For example, to help eliminate the debt from the war, the German government of the 1920's debased the currency, causing a hyper inflation. This of course made all debt worthless, but also wiped out savings and capital, causing a major economic calamity. The USA came up with the wonderful idea of high tarrifs and high income tax rates - brilliant economic policies that by themselves may have triggered the USA depression....and as mentioned above are still high on the list of favorable economic policies by liberals and other economic morons.

At the start of world War I, the Prime Minister was H.H. Asquith. He was replaced on 7th December 1916 by David Lloyd George who remained Prime Minister until 19th October 1922. Britain joined the war in August 1914 and it ended on 11th November 1918.

Germany was blamed for WWI. They had to pay off all the reparations to the Allies. This changed the world because all of the other countries felt cheated and betrayed by the peace settlements {Germany too}. Also, some countries, such as japan and Italy, which had entered the war to gain territory, had gained less than they wanted, so everyone was just unhappy with the outcome of joining the war. For one thing, it broke up the German and Autro-Hungarian empires and created a number of new sovereign states out of them. Examples include Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

The Treaty of Versailles was the primary enabler of WW2. Hitler and his party would never have gained support if the people weren't resentful against the allies.

One of Woodrow Wilson's ideas for the Treaty of Versailles was to establish an organisation of countries, designed to put a stop to all future conflicts. In January, 1920, the League of Nations was officially born.

Woodrow Wilson went to the table of the Treaty of Versailles with an agenda of creating the League of Nations. The nations of the world wanted to talk about their agendas not his 14 points. They were after revenge, retribution and admission of guilt when his agenda was peace and democratic ruling nations and alliances for his agendas. They basically had to promise him he would get his league if he got the Germans to sign the their Treaty and agreed to sign it too. He went back home and things changed while he was gone. He had to compromise. The US did not become part of the League because the US Congress did not go along with it. see related links below.

It was considered to be a complete failure do to the fact that in a sense it led to WWII. Germany had to pay a lot of reparations and felt harshly treated. France wanted it treated harder while Britain tried to convince France and the USA to punish Germany not too harshly but not to softly. The USA wanted Germany to be punished very little if at all. Also the USA did not ratify the Treaty or in other words agree to it.

They were involved in negotiating it with France. They had to agree with it, they thought it was a good idea because they were the ones that made it up. They were rude to Germany and included rude tasks for the Germans to do. They had to pay for the whole way, they couldn't ally with Austria, they couldn't have a navy and their army had to be no bigger than a hundred thousand men, whcih was nothing compared to the other armies.

From an early stage there was a lot of skepticism in Britain about the Versailles Treaty, and Britain was keen - long before appeasement - to see some of the harsher terms of the treaty, especially reparations made less burdensome for Germany. At this early stage, changes to the territorial provisions were a no-no.

At the time, most Brits thought it was about what Germany deserved, or maybe even too lenient.

Some people, mostly on the left, thought from the beginning that it was too severe. Over time, most Britons, save for a few old-fashioned Tories, came to share that view, hence the broad support for appeasement in the 1930s.

Oh, it was designed to produce exactly that. By impoverishing Germany it would deny the Germans the necessary economic muscle to wage war. Germany in particular was to be so heavily penalised that any economic wealth generation and militarisation would be closely monitored. It was not considered that this was manifestly unfair on ordinary people who lived in Germany, they were to be humbled and dispossessed and reduced to poverty. This needs to be taken in consideration of the experiences of the French & Prussians: Both in Napoleonic times, post 1806, and in terms of the war of 1870/71, in which Prussia crushed the French. France was the dominating power in terms of Versailles. But what the treaty ensured, particularly in terms of the Great Depression and its effects, was that Germany became a fertile breeding ground for resentment. Of course Hitler was able to focus upon this in his quest for power & he uses the feelings of people to his own advantage. In this respect Hitler used foreign intervention to his own ends and until the tide of WW2 changed, say 1942, I suppose most Germans would still believe that he was doing good for Germany. How wrong can you be ?

Article 231 placed the blame of the war on Germany and it's allies. This meant that all losses and damages from the war were Germany's responsibility and they had to make reparations. Germany was unhappy with this article because it placed a huge debt on them.

Yes, but the US signed another treaty with Germany a few years later.

Simple. The League of Nations (LON) has simply lack of 2 powerful nations at that point of time with no much colonies to deal with. They are namely the US and the USSR. The Britain and France were simply self-minded that they were busy on their colonies who were requesting for independence across the world. So they would like to see less problems worldwide by the Appeasement Policy to Hitler. (Churchill-, The Ex-Prime Minister of UK, simply thought that Adolf Hitler IS a trusted man, or rather a man who keeps to his promise.) Furthermore, both nations (UK&France) feel that this treaty is simply too extreme. (This treaty makes Germany lost some land with natural resource such as oil into the LON to take care for 15 years,then a vote was organized and the majority German voted for the return to the motherland,Germany instead of allowing LON or France to rule while Germany is needed to pay hundred billions to the Allies. So, at last, the Germans did not paid this huge sum of money. The treaty had made Germans lost all their pride and made their economy on the lowest point ever. High-unemployment and hyper-inflation,which an egg can cost millions of marks was not solved until Hitler rules the nation.)