The Treaty of Versailles seemed like a blessing after World War 1 until starting a terrible time known as World War 2. Although it punished the Germans for their mistakes in World War 1 most can say it created a way bigger one by doing so. Germany fell into a depressing and humiliating time forming lots of anger and confusion. Hitler was one of the many to be exasperated due to this treaty, creating a gateway to put him into power. By expressing and acting upon the people's anger many felt confident he would please the people of Germany. The Treaty of Versailles created much military restrictions, loss of land, and humiliation amongst Germans, forming their interest in Hitler. All of the losses Germany faced from the treaty were very impacting in a negative way to their society. As one can see in Mein Kampf’s document Hitler says, “No nation can remove this hand from its throat except by the sword,” showing how war is the only option towards the treaty. The people in Germany agreed to this act creating their army to fight with much anger and aggression towards their opponents. The document “Germany in the Great War” expresses how, …show more content…
Their military was one of the biggest sectors to have heavy restrictions put onto. One can see in document B its analysis how, “Germany must not exceed one hundred thousand men including officers” showing how the treaty has affected their military greatly. The Germans took the act of monitoring their troops very humiliating especially with the other countries out numbering them greatly. The other countries were exceed well over 100,000 troops according to, “German Political Cartoon” France had about 600,000 troops along with Poland reaching 300,000 and Czechoslovakia having 140,000. Comparing those numbers to Germany makes them seem very weak and vulnerable. Germany facing all of these restriction was bond to form some kind of war or rebellious
The first thing that the Treaty demanded was for Germany to decrease it's military power. Based on Article 160 from document B, “the German Army must not comprise more than seven divisions of infantry and three divisions of cavalry… After that date the total number of [military troops]... in… Germany must not exceed one hundred thousand men, including officers…” Comparing this numbers to the other European countries, this was insignificant. Let me show you an example, according to the German
After the First World War, European countries tried to undo the destruction caused by great battles during the war. The Allies constructed The Treaty of Versailles causing Germany to accept the war blame. Germany was forced to pay respiration and had to give up a lot of their land causing Germany’s economy to crash. Hitler started to convince the Germans that he would bring Germany back to its original status and bring great wealth. But to rebuild Germany's status Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by having an army over 100,000 mens and going into the Rhineland.
The creation of the Treaty of Versailles began bad. All of the countries that fought in the war were not included in the process of creating the treaty. One of the main missing parties was Germany. Document 5 showed that Germany had no say
Throughout the 1930s, countries who were upset over the outcome of World War I started to take aggression toward the other countries who had oppressed them through the Treaty Of Versailles. When Germany was defeated they became embarrassed and wanted to prove their superiority to other countries. However, Germany was in severe debt from World War I. As they struggled through financial ruin, many citizens were frustrated with the situation they faced and were extremely unhappy. This allowed the Nazi party and Hitler to rise to political power in Germany. Hitler was determined to restore glory to Germany and enact revenge on the countries that embarrassed them.
According to Article 160 from Document B the allies forced Germany to weaken their military to a mere 100,000 troops. An excerpt from Article 160 states "The Army shall be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of order within the territory and to the control of the frontiers…. The total effective strength of officers, including the personnel of staffs, whatever their composition, must not exceed four thousand. " This evidence supports the idea that military restrictions on Germany helped cause World War II because it weakened Germany immensely to the point where Belgium had around 6 times more military power than Germany(Belgium had around 602,000 total available
What if I told you one single document cause World War II, would you believe me? The Versailles Treaty was a Treaty that all countries signed after World War I to finalize what would happen to Germany. How did the Versailles Treaty help cause a World War II? The Treaty punished Germany in four ways; territory loss, reparations, military reorganization, and war guilt. The most important cause was military reorganization.
Since the Treaty of Versailles was signed, many German civilians have hated it so much. When Hitler started to get more recognized he said how he would make everything better and break the treaty. Many people began to follow him because he was saying how he would fix everything. He promised to end unemployment. Which he did eventually, but using a lot of propaganda.
The treaty required them to relinquish their military power, substantial portions of their land, their say in international affairs and their respect. The principal factor that gave rise to feelings of humiliation and anger was "the war guilt clause" that attributed all blame to Germany for starting the war, the anger of
After this war ended on November 11, 1918, leaders from the countries made a treaty called the Treaty of Versailles. After this treaty was made, many things happened and the question in many people 's minds was how did this treaty cause WWII? The Treaty of Versailles helped cause WWII by treating Germany harshly in these three ways: Their army was reduced, they lost territory, and the number one reason is all of the blame Germany got. One way that the Treaty of Versailles treated Germany harshly was the way that it reduced their army. After the date of March 31, 1920, Germany wasn’t allowed to have over one hundred thousand soldiers in its army, (Doc B) Germany would more than likely be furious because what if they were attacked?
Can describe what a Death Camp was and what the conditions were like for prisoners Death camps were horrific places where undesirable were sent to die or work as slaves. Some were put in gas chambers on arrival, other were shot simply because a guard wanted to. Some dies of disease, most were worked to death or starved. They had to sleep in cramped places and only had one pair of clothes. There was one big bucket for waste that was filled with diseases.
Some historians believe that the Treaty of Versailles is mainly responsible for the political and economic instability in Germany between 1919 and 1923. Which means that they, in turn, believe that both the alt right and alt right revolts, thousands of Germans dying from famine, the economy crashing in 1923 and ultimately the creation of Nazi Germany are all direct and immediate results of the Treaty of Versailles. While the are quite right some extent, it’s not as simple as that. The Treaty of Versailles lead to a snowballing of events which were ultimately finalised by the creation of Nazi Germany, however there are a multitude of other events that helped it come along nicely. This essay will explore the key points of the Treaty of Versailles,
Hitler also took advantage of the fact that a majority of the German population wanted strong leadership and national unity as well as the political, economic and social climate brought about by the end of the War. Using his charisma and strong leadership like Benito Mussolini he was able to rise to power. He and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party were able to successfully gain support due to the frustrations with the current party. One of the biggest reasons was the peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles, which the Germans were humiliated
This left them vulnerable and open to manipulation. The treaty was not a cause of Hitler waging war, it only served as an excuse for it. The treaty was a way to manipulate German citizens into wanting what he craved. It served as the first spark that ignited the propaganda, invasions, and disloyalty towards the appeasements and treaties. Even if the Treaty of Versailles was redacted or allowed Germany to have larger borders or chosen military forces, Hitler still would have continued chasing more until he made Germany the leading country in the world.
Germany owed an abundant amount of money to the Allies, “[a] contracting 21.5 billion RM in foreign debts… ”1 The reparations due caused a state of hyperinflation within Germany which also produced many to lose their jobs and savings because of the collapsing economy. As the economy continued to collapse, the Third Reich started to materialize, however, in the beginning, the new parliament too had to deal with the ensuing debt. “The Third Reich inherited from the Weimar Republic a chronically weak balance of payments that severely limited its freedom of maneuver. The First World War had stripped Germany of its foreign capital assets and replaced them with the liability of reparations.
He had also caused the second world war as well as orchestrating the Holocaust, the genocide that had caused the death of millions of Jewish people. Hitler was raised in a humble family and quickly rose to power by targeting things that people in Germany, at that time, had disapproved of, such as the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty was created as a result of the first world war and forced Germany to give up land and give reparations for damages caused by the war even though Germany had not caused the war. Instead, the assassination of an archduke of Austria by a Bosnian Serb caused the world war. As many people expected, the German people were infuriated by this injustice.