Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty of Versailles restricted the size of the German Army to 100,000 men. However, secret clauses in the Treaty of Rapallo enabled Germany to station a further 100,000 men in the Soviet Union.

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The Treaty of Versailles forbid Germany from building submarines. Yet years before Hitler took power in Germany, the Wiemar Republic secretly had submarines built in Spain. Netherlands, and Finland. It seems surprising that in the Netherlands, this type of submarine production was not publicized and called to the attention of England and France.

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no they where not allow to build and air force are a large standing army ,niether a powerful sea force

They were treated better!

President Woodrow Wilson studied international relations, previous treaties, and the wishes and desires of the nations of Europe and the world, and drew up a list of 14 things he thought should be included in the final treaty, which would be known as the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson personally went to Versailles to persuade other nations. He was greeted as a hero in Europe, but he was thought to be naive by other negotiators.

The two most crucial things he asked in the 14 Points were, first, that Germany not be required to pay reparations, but instead be allowed to rebuild into a commercial, trading and industrial power (without arms). Unfortunately, this was not in the treaty -- it was the massive reparations that Germany could not pay which led to hyperinflation in the German and Austrian economies, and collapse of the economies. That collapse led to the rise of radical parties, including the National Socialists, and the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1932 and 1933.

The second was the creation of an international body to work to keep peace, a league of nations. The League of Nations was created by the treaty.

Unfortunately, Wilson did not have the support of conservatives in the U.S. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, and the U.S. was never a member of the League of Nations -- a point which helped make the League unable to stop the rush to World War II two decades later.

Wilson undertook a national speaking tour to rally the U.S. people to his side, but he suffered a stroke during the tour, and he was never healthy again.

Here is a list of the 14 Points in detail, from the text of a speech President Wilson gave to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918:

I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.

III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.

IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.

VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.

VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.

VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.

IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.

XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.

XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.

XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

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They didn't... Before WW2, France made Germany sign the Treaty of Versailles which forced 440 laws upon Germany restricting their army, their government and many other factors...

It did not.

The Treaty of Versailles was ratified in the relevant countries in 1919. World War II began in 1939. Future events cannot cause past events (unless Time Travel is involved).

Who: The Allied leaders, Germany

What: Treaty of Versailles

When: Signing on November 11, 1919

Where: Versailles, France

Why: To keep Germany from starting another war, for Germany to pay war reparations, give back land, reduce military. take blame for WWI

Germans were angry that their leaders had signed the Treaty of Versailles.

When Germany failed to pay reparations ordered by the Treaty of Versailles, France occupied the Ruhr Valley.

Actually, the treaty was not " bad." it was a perfectly understandably treaty. The Germans had destroyed much of France, costing thousands of lives, and lost. The treaty was written to prevent this from happening again. That is, to deprive the German Nation the means by which to ever again wage a war of aggression and upset the continental balance of power. In 1871, the Prussian led German invading of France marched on Paris and annexed French territory; isolation of the French republic had been a major foreign policy objective of Prince Bismark, and Wilhelm II had been responsible for some major international crisises.

But the actions of the Kaiserreich, particularly the Kaiser's unwavering support of Franz-Josef following the Archduke's assassination, which would inevitably send Russia into conflict with the Habsburg Empire, thus pulling in France, Germany, Britain, and their empires. The treaty attempted to deprive the Germans the opportunity to ever again upset the continental balance of power by forbidding the development of a munitions industry, limiting the size of the Reichswehr to 100,000 professional soldiers, and putting major restrictions on industry, transferring the Saar Basin to French control for a certain time and requiring the payment of massive reparations to pay for the massive rebuilding of France (keeping in mind that the physical damage to German infrastructure and industry was relatively light). The so-called war guilt clause put the moral blame for the war on the German Empire, the only major power of the central powers that still existed (the Ottoman Empire and Austrio-Hungarian Empire disintegrated, and would be used as justification for much of the reparations. In all honesty, the goal of the treaty, to prevent another war, would have been successful had the treaty been enforced, but the French were the only party to the treaty with an interest in zealous enforcement, by force if necessary, of the provisions. The British were not, for German prewar was a major market for British products, and further, the foreign policy of his Majesty's government has always been to maintain the balance of power on the continent, to prevent any one power from so dominating the continent so as to challenge British naval supremacy in the North Atlantic and globally, threatening her imperial lifeline and posing a direct threat of invasion across the Channel.

Treaties are written by the victor, and so any peace treaty would seem unfair to the loser. But wars are fought to achieve a goal; wars are fought to achieve a political end that can not be achieved through other means. War is a means to an end, and when what began as a small conflict in the Balkan and ended at Versailles, the end was to prevent the Germans from ever again upsetting the Balance of power. Good, bad, right, wrong, are all terms that are subjective, and depend on what the ends were. To the French, as this treaty would give them the ability to extract revenge, money, resources, and a permanent limitation on the German ability to wage war, his was a good treat. To the Germans, because it did all these things, this was a bad treaty; but it was a treaty signed when the combined arms of the French, British Empire, and the United States were on guard and could crush the remaining forces of the exiled German Emperor.

The Allies were too focused on punishing Germany and didn't look at the consequences. Hitler took power and started stock-piling weapons. Since the U.S. didn't join the league of nations, it was powerless to stop Germany. After many acts of German aggression, WWII begun when France and England declared war.

The Treaty of Versailles meant Germany was to give up colonies, land, and repay for the war as well as cut their military might.

The League of Nations was supposed to ensure this but without the backing of the Unites States the League of nations was too weak to do anything.

The United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles because they did not want to punish Germany that harshly. The U.S. felt that the treaty was punishing Germany the wrong way and felt that Germany would respond back. The treaty was made in a way that Germany would have no choice but to fight the treaty and that is a major reason for World War 2. By the U.S. not signing the treaty, they were not immediately involved in World War 2.

He didn't like the ratifications made by the senate.

The treaty of versaille was a peace treaty at the end of World War 1. The treaty was received badly in Germany because they were blamed for the war. the treaty is linked to the rise of Hitler in WW2

It contradicted the power of Congress to declare war.

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All of the Versailles Treaty upset the Germans and devastated their country and economy.

Japan received many of the former German colonies in the Pacific in exchange for its contributions to the war effort.