Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Treaty of Versailles

When the war ended the winning nations made a treaty called the treaty of Versailles, basically blaming Germany for the cause of the war and all of the damages done by the war Germany had to pay so Germany had to pay a large amounts of money to the winning nations. Some of the things that the Treaty restricted Germany to do was not have more than 100,000 men in their army, to have no use of heavy artillery, gas, tanks, submarines, having control of over seas land, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, other territory of Germany was taken away and they lost about 13% of land and about the same percentage of population. Also the most important was that Germany was to blame for the beginning of the war, even though it really wasn't Germany who started the war.
I believe that the war was unfair but like Germany had no other choice but to accept because they lost Britain, France, and United States took advantage of it. For example, Britain and Germany before the war were rivals with military power and Germany was quickly becoming powerful and Britain was becoming scaried because they were always the most powerful nation of Europe. Many historians believe what ended WW1 started WW2 because of the sums that Germany had to pay and the lose of the overseas terrioty they had no products to make money so they entered into a kind of depression. People had no jobs, family members where lost because of the war, the other nations took some of Germanys land and people, so they became bitter from it.

Later, came Aldolf Hilter which promise the people to get out of the problem that they had. But who would know that he was a manica who who have killed millions of people, mostly Jews. People were desprite to get out of the depression that came after the post war downfall. There was close to about half of the percentage of people without jobs. So they turned to Aldolf Hilter that promised to punsih the people that put them threw that misery, and stabalizh to Germany.

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