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Treaty of Versailles
Signed in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that ended WWI. It was mainly negotiated by Britain, France and the US, forcing Germany to accept the sole responsibility for the war and to pay major reparations.
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What nation had to accept full responsibility for starting WW 1?
Germany was forced to accept full responsibility for starting WW 1 and causing the deaths of millions and property losses.
WWII
By David Li After WWII, Germany lost many territories because Germany did not win the war. Germany paid 32 billion for reparation to other countries, that made Germany's economic unstable. German's president also promised other countries that Germany would not gain land anymore. Adolph Hitler became the president of Germany after the old German president died. He did not like the way that Germany's economic grow. Therefore, he blamed Jews for Germany's economic problems. He put all the Jews in the prison because he promise the German people that he would make Germany's economic better. Hitler wanted more power in the world, therefore he broke the old German president's promise for not to gain land anymore. Hitler build up its military for gain more power. At that time, Italy and Japan all wanted more power. Therefore Italy, Japan and Germany made an alliance. Germany invaded Poland. Italy invaded Ethiopia. Japan invaded China. Britain and France declared war on Germany because they promised Poland that they would help Poland if it were attacked. The U.S. made an isolationism policy at that time because the U.S. wanted to stay out of the war in Europe. At that time, the U.S. had many trades with other countries like Japan and Italy. The U.S. stopped the trade of selling weapons to Italy after Italy invaded Ethiopia. The U.S. also stopped the trade of selling materials and oil to Japan after Japan invaded China. The U.S. sold weapons to Britain and France to help them fight with Germany. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of the U.S. stopped selling war materials and oil to Japan. There were more than 2300 Americans died. The U.S. Declared war on Japan. Then Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.. The U.S. made an alliance with Britain, France and Russia. They all fight against Germany and Italy and won the war. Then U.S. attacked Japan. The U.S. scientists used 4 years to work secretly to Construct an atomic bomb. The U.S. dropped two separate atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were over 170,000 Japanese people died. The Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945. WWII was over in 1945. WWII killed 300,000 Americans and over 50 million people worldwide. It was a really sad time. Everyone wants peace not war.
Were the Germans allowed to negotiate at the Treaty of Versailles?
The truth is that they weren't, they either had to sign the treaty or suffer the consequences of a continued allied blockade. Germany was made vulnerable and had to "surrender".
What was signed by Germany for the blame of the treaty of versaille?
The treaty of Versaille was the document signed by Germany.
Treaty of Versailles is an unjust treaty?
It was victors justice and was the single biggest contributing factor to the beginning of WW2.
I cannot agree more with your statement and I would like to add the following as a wider more relevant contextual answer:
However in defence of Germany pre WWII, one has to go right back to Austro-Hungarian empire and their private little war that they thought would be over quickly. And it all started by an assassination no one even cared about.
With the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th, 1914, Austria-Hungary was able to secure the promise from Germany that it would aid in a war with Serbia and possibly Russia, if Russia chose to enter the fray due to their treaty with Serbia. It should be noted here that Austria-Hungary did not really expect Russia to enter the fray as they expected this to be a very small war that would be over quickly, before Russia would be obligated to respond. Now with Germany's support if Russia did enter the fray, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia with remarkably severe terms that Serbia would be sure to reject, thus giving Austria-Hungary an excuse to go launch a limited war on Serbia to reclaim territory in the Balkans.
So why go to war over an assassination, if nobody cared? Because, while nobody seemed to much care about the assassination itself, Austria-Hungary had been looking for an excuse to wage a "preventative war" against Serbia as a state in order to weaken or destroy them so as to take back territory in the Balkans, which had been taken during the Balkan Wars. They had not taken it back up to this point because they lacked Germany's support; without that support, they feared Russia too much, because of the treaty Russia had with Serbia.
Surprisingly, Serbia responded relatively well to the ultimatum, but they did dispute a few minor clauses, which gave Austria-Hungary the excuse they needed to go to war. At this point, the following general series of events happened due to a variety of existing treaties between various nations, which escalated this minor clash into the first "Great War".
These are the events that led up to the first world war.
Russia bound by their treaty with Serbia decides to come to Serbia's aid.
Germany, with the recent treaty with Austria-Germany, declares war on Russia.
France, bound by an existing treaty with Russia, now is at war with Germany by association. Germany then invades Belgium to have easy access to France.
Britain, allied to France with an existing treaty, declares war against Germany. This was unexpected by Germany as they expected Britain to stay out of the war, due to the fact that the treaty with France was loosely worded and not entirely binding. However, Britain also had a 75 year old treaty with Belgium. So because of both of these treaties, they decided to declare war on Germany.
With Britain now warring with Germany, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa enter the war as they were colonies of Britain.
Japan honors an existing treaty with Britain and declares war on Germany.
Austria-Hungary declare war on Japan for declaring war on Germany.
The U.S. tries to stay out of the war but in 1917 decides to enter due to Germany's submarine's hindering the United State's commercial shipping because the U.S. was shipping a lot of supplies to the Allies.
So in the end, a small quick war over a minor land dispute got turned into a lengthy war that was joined by powers all over the globe due to a variety of existing treaties dating back as much as 75 years before the war started.
So one can see why Germans backed Hitler and his Nazi party, because he promised to put Germany back to the way it was before the first world war, and the large amount of land it lost to other countries.
Today this would be unheard of to land steal from a country.
While it's also important to understand that the Austrian - Hungarian empire also back stabbed Germany, practically leaving it to fight a war it started and it could never win...infact the austro-hungarian empire came to an abrupt alt during the conflict after it was absolutely annihilated by Russia.
Overall it was extremely harsh that Britain and America demanded restitution for the damage done / caused..and I am more than sure back then once that treaty had been signed, knowing how unfair / unjust and savage that treaty was, it wouldn't be long before Germany would do something about it.
List the big four and their goals or intentions on the treaty of Versailles?
The Big Four at the Treaty of Versailles were David Lloyd George of Britain, Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy. Each of these men wanted in some way to control what happened after the war in such a way as to prevent Germany from rising and creating trouble in the world. The 'Fourteen Points' proposed at the Versailles was an attempt by these men to have the post-war world go the way they believed it should.
Who was presented at the Treaty of Versailles?
Well I'll tell you now the treaty of Versailles wasn't a present.
The American president, the U.K Prime minister and Italy and french leaders were present.
The German leader was not, this is partly why they were treated so harshly
Who was the US president that signed the peace treaty ending US involvement in Vietnam?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Were there other treaties besides the treaty of Versailles?
Treaty of St. Germain with Austria (1919)
Treaty of Neuilly with Bulgaria (1919)
Treaty of Trianon with Hungary (1920)
Treaty of Sevres with Turkey (1920) - later amended in the:
Treaty of Lausanne with Turkey (1923)
How far was the treaty of Versailles to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939?
The Treaty of Versailles was to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939, firstly, because its one of Hitler's main aims to destroy the treaty in his foreign policy. Many Germans, including the Nazis, felt the treaty was incredibly unfair on Germany. The treaty placed restrictions on the German military, for example, only 100,000 men in the army, 6 battleships, no airforce, submarines or tanks, and only 15,000 men in the army. This would have decreased the national pride in Germany and many extremist dictators would want to rearm to restore the German pride. This meant that tensions would increase because the Germans would have wanted revenge, thus meaning a war would be very possible.
Furthermore, the treaty was to blame because it placed many land restrictions on Germany. Germany lost 13% of its land and 10% of its population. For example, Germany lost the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia, Danzig became a free city, North Schleswig went to Denmark, the Saar region was under the control of the League of Nation's for 15 years and an Anschluss (union) with Austria was forbidden. Again, one of the main aims of Hitler's foreign policy was to unite all German speakers. In the Sudetenland, there were 3 million German speakers, the Saar was once part of Germany and 8 million Austrians spoke German. To regain these lost German speakers, it meant that Germany would have to invade these areas of land, which broke the rules of the treaty and also the League. This would mean Germany would have to go to war to fulfill Hitler's aims.
However, the Treaty of Versailles was not to blame for the outbreak of war, rather because of the policy of appeasement which was adopted by Britain and France. When Hitler threatened to take the Sudetenland in 1938, there was a conference in Munich between the USSR, Britain, France and Germany to decide what should be done. Czechoslovakia was not invited to the conference, so the fate of their country would be decided by these 4 greater nations. The outcome of the conference was that Germany could take control of the Sudetenland which showed that Britain and France had given in to Hitler's demands. This meant that Britain and France looked weak and that by allowing Hitler to get what he wanted, they couldn't be sure as to whether he would try to go further and invade another country, believing he could get away with it again, which he did, on September 1st 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
Secondly, the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 was to blame for the outbreak of war because Germany and the Soviet Union had secretly planned to divide Poland up between them, which meant that a war was inevitable. This part of the pact was kept secret, but also they decided that the USSR would not attack Germany if Germany was to invade Poland. This meant that war was almost imminent and the old fashioned way of forming military alliances was happening, meaning war was likely. Following this pact, Britain discarded its appeasement policy and passed a War Powers Act promising to defend Poland if Germany invaded. This meant that tensions were very high between the nations of Europe which eventually resulted in the second world war.
In conclusion, I believe personally that the Treaty of Versailles was to blame for the outbreak of war because it restricted the German frontiers on the east and western side, which meant many German speakers were lost to other nations, which created a sense of betrayal and resentment in Germany. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, he set about uniting all German speakers which could only happen by invading other nations. Furthermore, Hitler publicly began to rearm in 1935 which went against the treaty which meant that war was becoming more likely as the army was fueled by revenge.
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Why was the Treaty of Versailles flawed?
depending on which treaty of Versailles you're talking about, Im going to assume its not the one that unified Germany but the one that ended world war I. one of the main issues that it had was that the reparations that were placed on Germany were so harsh that Germany started to get bad intentions,, many people blame the treaty for starting WWII!
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What did Wilson hope to achieve with American Neutrality?
I think Woodrow was buying time to equip America with armaments, as was Roosevelt in 1939. Although the U.S. claims to have won both wars, it entered War I only in 1917, and War II at the end of 1941, after Britain, France, Canada and others had been fighting the Nazi axis for 2 years.
What day does Veterans Day land on?
Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day. The cease fire, or armistice, of World War I occurred at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, French time. The Allies and Germany had signed the armistice 6 hours earlier. It was first commemorated on November 11, 1919 to honor the veterans of WWI. (WWI officially ended on June 28, 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.)
In 1954, after both World War II and the Korean War, legislation was enacted to change the word "Armistice" to "Veterans" to honor veterans of all wars in which the United States was involved.
The Uniform Monday Holiday Bill was enacted in 1968 to make three-day weekends for federal employees for certain holidays. It went into effect in 1971. Veterans Day was one of the holidays so affected and the date of its observance was moved from its traditional date of November 11 to the last Monday in October. But there was so much furor from the public and veterans groups about the change of dates that it was restored to November 11 by an Act signed in 1975 and taking effect in 1978.
What was the impact on Germany because of her refusal to pay war reparations in 1923?
the impacts were-
*France occupied the coal reserves in order to compensate for the loans which Germany had taken.
*People became more anxious and got angry in the Weimar Republic.
*In order to compensate for the losses, Germany started printing more and more paper currency which led to hyperinflation.
*The condition was like that the people had to take cartloads of currency for even buying a loaf of bread as the value of currency fell.
What is the total number of German military troops allowed by Article 160 of the Versailles Treaty?
The total number of German military troops allowed by Article 160 of the Versailles Treaty is 100,000.
What did the treaty of Versaille do?
If you mean "Treaty of Versailles" then it basically ended World War I.
Want to know more? Read a good book about WWI. :)
the treaty of Versailles was a massive shock on German citizens because it made them fee down and depressed because of the large amount of dept they had to pay and they were not allowed to conscript soldiers and they were not allowed to make weapons, and economically it was very hard for them to pay all that money and after that there was the great depression witch made things worse.
Germany had to take sole responsibilty for the war and they had to pay for all the damages that related to the war.
Well, Germany did start it but they conclude that its is unfair that it is all their fault. They claim that all who participated should take the blame also, not all on them. Your welcome =) The question confuses the two world wars ... The question does not confuse the two world wars. It links them.
