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Versailles
Title: Versailles
Category: History / War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 1599 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles - 28th June 1919
Introduction
By 1918 Germany was being defeated in most areas of the war. German people were hungry, war weary and demanded peace. The German government eventually asked for an armistice, and at the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918, cease-fire began.
The problem of peace remained. Many people hoped that a peace settlement would prevent war from happening again, President Woodrow Wilson thought that he had the answer to all …showed first 75 words of 1599 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1599 total…disarmament Only Germany disarmed at Versailles. It was enforced unilateral disarmament. Also, to humiliate Germany further, she had to build ships for the Allies (Allies rearmed)
National-Self Determination NSD was applied unfairly at Versailles, e.g. Poland. Poland was given Posen-West Prussia, and therefore, the Germans on this land were now under foreign rule. Also the Anschluss of Germany and Austria was not allowed, and so the Germany speakers in these lands were denied NSD.
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