The Treaty Of Versailles
I chose this event for my topic because I thought it was pretty interesting. In history class you never really go over the treaties and what they're all about, so I thought that it would be a good event to do. On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles, which ended military actions against Germany in World War 1. The treaty provided peace between Germany and 32 Allied and associated nations, including Britain, France, Italy, and Japan. It also provided a reorganization of the boundaries and certain territories of European nations and areas controlled in Africa, Asia, and Pacific Ocean. A group of four men, called "The Big Four", consisted of President Woodrow Wilson of the U.S., Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the U.K., Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, and the Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy. Georges Clemenceau, of France, wanted to make Germany pay for all of the damage that France had suffered during the four years of fighting. He also wanted to make sure that a war like this would never happen again. Overall, he had three main demands. One, in 1871, Germany had taken Alsace-Lorraine, so he wanted Germany to return it to France. Two, during the wa
Also in the treaty, Italy was given Istria and the South Tirol. In 1917, Woodrow Wilson, of the United States, declared war on Germany, but suffered no damage. Germany had to pay reparations to the Allies, which the total came up to L6,600,000,000. David Lloyd George, of Great Britain, believed there may be problems in the future, so Germany shouldn't be treated too harshly and they should be allowed to recover. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was formed into Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In the treaty, Germany was forced to reduce its army to 100,000 men, reduce its navy to 6 warships, and to destroy all of its air force. Three, he wanted to be able to take possession of the Rhineland, in order to stop Germany from attacking France in the future. Some of the main points were: European domestic and economic equalization, the independence of Belgium, giving Alsace-Lorraine back to France, access to the Baltic Sea for Poland, paying for the damage the Germans caused when invading, and for a League of Nations to settle international disputes. Because of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler was able to be victorious and manipulate people by maintaining his actions on the unfairness of the treaty. He encouraged many German's feelings of being betrayed by their own government and therefore thought they had no obligation to follow the treaty; this group became the Nazi's. In 1915, Vittorio Orlando, of Italy, declared war on Germany after the Secret Treaty of London. He also believed that the Rhineland should be "demilitarised" and France shouldn't be able to take it. The Allies gave Germany a new form of government, which was to prevent a dictatorship, but it led to more then thirty political parties. The land lost by Russia was split between Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. Hitler believed Germany had given up to easily to the allies and still had a chance to win the war because there had been no fighting on German soil.
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