Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The treaty of Versailles affected Germany in negetive way. Germany was blamed for the entire war, and was forced to pay the compensation to the allies. The Germans lost 10% of their land, overseas colonies were taken away which means that they no longer have access to the Spice island. They also lost 12.5% of their population. Basically Germany had no money to recover from this.Germany was under control by the other European countries, and had rules that Germany cannot break. Germany had limited army 100,000 men is the limit. Their overseas possesions were taken by the european countries.Coal minning area were controlled by France.Germany had to pay goods(money, gold) to the allies as a reparations.Also Germany would take the responsiblity or the guilt of the war.I think the treaty was not fair, because not only Germany was involved in the war, but Austria-Hungary was involved in the war along with Germany.Its not just fair to blame only one country for the cost of the war.They blamed Germany for the war cause Germany lost the war, and became weak after losing the war. Germany was very weak that time, and they needed strong leader like Hitler to get them back on track.They felt that Hitler would make Germany strong, and he will recover all the territory that has been lost.They had no other hopes, but to trust Adolph Hitler. Adolph Hitler created hopes in the mind of German people and so they trusted him.

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