The Treaty of Versailles was the official ending of the first World War. It was a peace treaty between the Allied Powers and Germany. The first thing to be signed was the armistice on November 11, 1918 that ended the fighting and then after six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference the peace treaty was concluded.
The treaty forced Germany to accept full responsibility of the war and was forced to pay for all the damage it had caused. There was three aims of this peace treaty: punishment, payment, and prevention. Germany should be punished because she started the war. With Germany being the aggressor, they should pay for the financial and human costs. And to insure a war with Germany never happens again they needed to prevent Germany from fighting.
The terms of the treaty were divided into four categories: territory, military, financial and general. Under territory many pieces of land were given back to its previous country or the League of Nations. Under military the German army couldn't exceed 100 000 men and they had to serve for 12-25 years. Germany was not allowed to have an air force and only 6 naval ships. They also had to demilitarize Rhineland which the Allies occupied for 15 years. Under general Germany was forced to accept the war guilt clause saying that they started the war. They were forced to rebuild France and Belgium.
The Germans felt they should have been consulted on the terms of the treaty while the Allies thought that since the Germans lost the war they didn't need to consult them.
I think the Treaty of Versailles had to be done but didn't need to be done in such a blaming fashion. Germany should have been punished but not in a way that tied them down and didn't let them be their own country. The should not have been pushed around by the Allies and made to pay up. This just caused the country to become upset and is a possible reason for the second world war. If they hadn't made Germany give up almost everything that made them their own country thing possibly could have stay neutral.
The treaty forced Germany to accept full responsibility of the war and was forced to pay for all the damage it had caused. There was three aims of this peace treaty: punishment, payment, and prevention. Germany should be punished because she started the war. With Germany being the aggressor, they should pay for the financial and human costs. And to insure a war with Germany never happens again they needed to prevent Germany from fighting.
The terms of the treaty were divided into four categories: territory, military, financial and general. Under territory many pieces of land were given back to its previous country or the League of Nations. Under military the German army couldn't exceed 100 000 men and they had to serve for 12-25 years. Germany was not allowed to have an air force and only 6 naval ships. They also had to demilitarize Rhineland which the Allies occupied for 15 years. Under general Germany was forced to accept the war guilt clause saying that they started the war. They were forced to rebuild France and Belgium.
The Germans felt they should have been consulted on the terms of the treaty while the Allies thought that since the Germans lost the war they didn't need to consult them.
I think the Treaty of Versailles had to be done but didn't need to be done in such a blaming fashion. Germany should have been punished but not in a way that tied them down and didn't let them be their own country. The should not have been pushed around by the Allies and made to pay up. This just caused the country to become upset and is a possible reason for the second world war. If they hadn't made Germany give up almost everything that made them their own country thing possibly could have stay neutral.
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