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Treaty of Versailles Disclosure 1 Outline and summarize the treaty, its participants and the effects it had on the post war world. The Treaty of Versailles was signed
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The Treaty of Versailles was originally document that was written to create peace in Europe after the end of WWI. But when one reads it, they realize that it is mainly the listing of all of the things that Germany has do to in order to surrender. This includes taking full responsibility for starting the war (War Guilt). It also made Germany pay reparations to all of the Allied countries. These factors put together, completely destroyed Germany. The Treaty of Versailles ended up causing more problems than it solved because it left Germany very poor, angry and ready for revenge.
Mainly three countries wrote the Treaty of Versailles. They were France, Great Britain and the USA, which can also be known as the “Big Three”. Now of those three, France was the hardest on Germany. Since most of the fighting had been it France, many of France’s cities and factories had been destroyed. While Germany was retreating, they would blow up all of the factories and coal mines so that their enemy couldn’t use it. This caused quite a lot of damage to the French economy. George Clemenceau was set on crippling Germany both economically and militarily. It was his idea to reduce Germany’s military to 100,000 soldiers and to have Germany pay very, very, high reparations. He also wanted to divide up Germany into many different countries so that they would have no power and it would make it harder for them to unite. Fortunately, Clemenceau wasn’t able to make that a part of the treaty.
Great Britain’s goals were to mainly get rid of Germany’s navy. For hundreds of years, Britain’s navy had ruled the seas and then Germany began to build a navy that was comparable to Britain’s. Lloyd-George felt that Germany should not be allowed a navy all together, that way; Britain will continue to rule the seas. Another one of Lloyd-George’s goals was to gain control of most of Germany’s colonies. He ended up not getting as many as he liked but Great Britain...
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