The End Of The War

On June, 28 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. This treaty coupled with other factors, such as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, Europe’s policy of appeasement, and Germany’s invasion of Poland would lead to - and be direct causes of - World War II. In fact, when French military commander Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, her observed with extreme accuracy - “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years.” (Churchill, 7)

The Treaty of Versailles was a major event in the 1920’s that was largely responsible for the events to follow, including the rise of Hitler and World War 2. Woodrow Wilson came up with a fourteen point plan of how to end the war with fairness and lasting peace. Germany was willing to accept the consequences because they trusted the treaty would be based off of Wilsons’ plan. Unfortunately for Germany and her allies, there were meetings with the four main allie leaders at Versailles to determine the final terms of the treaty without them. These men were determined to punish Germany, excluding Wilson, and hold them completely responsible for World War One. The consequences for Germany were unreasonable and unfair because Germany was not able

Ninety-eight years ago, after the fighting of World War I subsided, the Treaty of Versailles (“the Treaty”) was signed at the Palace of Versailles in France by the Allied powers and Germany. The compromise of the Treaty is that it ended World War I. The conflict of the Treaty is that it fed the German’s hate for the Allied Powers and, in turn, was the cause of World War II. “In their hearts was a stern resolution that the fiasco of November 11, 1918, would not be repeated for all serious people in America, as in all nations, remembered that much hailed Versailles Treaty was sown the very seeds of World War II” (Library Of Congress. Manzanar free press, November 12, 1942. 1942. Newspaper. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84025948/1942-11-12/ed-1/. )

On January 22, 1917, Woodrow Wilson addressed the United States Senate appealing for a settlement of conflict for ‘peace without victors’. Unfortunately the Treaty of Versailles was signed by participating nations and could not end the hostilities that terrorized to destroy European Civilization. The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most important social and physical agreement or disagreements that help shape the European 20th century. The treaty was very important because it violated Wilson’s ideals. The Treaty of Versailles was the official end of the World War I and was ultimately the main reason that led to World War II.

World War 1, fought from 1914 to 1918, ended with Germany on the losing side, and Britain, France, the U.S., and Russia on the winning side. Many countries were unhappy due to the fact they had lost so much money and resources from the war, and vowed never to go through the terribleness of a world war again. Little did they know around 20 years later the second world war would begin. So France, England, and the U.S. Presidents met in Versailles, France to figure out how to gain peace. France was angry they had suffered so much from the war, and proposed Germany pay big sums of gold, land, resources, and reduce their military. This was agreed upon, and became known as the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was a factor that helped cause WW2 due to crestfallen Germany’s loss of money, land and military.

People often would assume that a peace treaty would bring peace to those involved and would end all violence. In the case of the Versailles Treaty and after the World War I ended in November 1918, that was not what appeared that happen. After the Versailles Treaty was officially signed on June 28, 1919 by victorious Allied nations and defeated Germany, that was when the beginning, prior to World War II began. Prime Minister George Lloyd Clemenceau of France had a voice in the Versailles Treaty and Germany did not. He specifically wanted Germany to pay France in land, gold, riches in general to pay for their suffering because of Germany’s mistakes during the First World War.

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War One and ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1919. One of the many stipulations in the treaty was that Germany had to accept responsibility for Germany and its allies for causing all of the damage and loss during

The years following the end of World War I were a time of transition, leaving behind in its trail of destruction several devastated nations and historic changes that could not have been foreseen. Harsh treaties were imposed upon the defeated nations by the victorious western powers. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey and Bulgaria were stripped of substantial territories and significant war reparations were imposed (Brower and Sanders 64 – 65).

The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended World War I. It was signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919, and followed the ratification of Germany and four other Allied Powers: Japan, Italy, France and Great Britain. It wasn’t ratified by the United States which made a different treaty with Germany incorporating a lot of the Treaty of Versailles. Different treaties of peace were created with Germany's allies: Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Austria. The Treaty of Versailles was made because of the armistice agreement between the Allies and the armistice with Germany. Accepting President Wilson's plan of Fourteen Points for peace, with slight modification by the Allies dealing with freedom of the reparations and the stats of Habsburg which had broken

World War I was one of the most destructive wars in modern history. Nearly ten million soldiers died as result, in part, from the introduction of new weapons, like the machine gun and gas warfare, as well as the failure of military leaders to adjust their tactics to the increasingly mechanized nature of warfare. Viewing Germany as the chief instigator of the conflict, the Allied Powers decided to impose particularly harsh terms and conditions upon defeated Germany. The Treaty of Versailles, signed June 28, 1919, did little to shape any sort of long-term peace from the results of World War I. Instead, the treaty, hastily put together, was vague, exposed the Allies’ inability to cooperate toward an agreement, and fueled German nationalism from resentment over its treatment by the Allies. It was doomed from the start, and another war was practically certain. The main reasons for the failure of the Treaty of Versailles to establish the long-term peace it envisioned involved the Allies disagreement on how to treat Germany, Germany’s refusal to accept the terms of reparations, the “war-guilt” clause which led to growing German resentment and nationalism, and the lack of enforcement and willingness of the Allied powers combined with the United States’ isolationism.

All stories are made from the stories of their past, But to get to the heart of the story you must go back to the beginning. In the year 2077 the end of the great war has finally had come to an end. After 18 years of war China had retreated from Anchorage. But the paranoid or just perceptive Americans knew that China would not just slink across the ocean so easily. People knew that the end was coming and took shelter in one of the great underground vaults made by Vault Tec. These underground vaults could hold up to 1,000 people at a time. Even though there was enough room for 150,000 Americans that number was dwarfed by the 400,000,000 people in America. When the sirens sounded people running to their vault were looked at as fools but when

On June 28, 1919, there was a treated that was signed by the allied powers and Germany which ended World War I called the Treaty of Versailles (Treaty of Versailles. 2009) The treaty was brought up by the four-major people who devoted to the treaty which were known as the “Big Four—David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the United States, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy” (Treaty of Versailles n/d). David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson cooperated more into shaping this treaty than the other members of the Allied Powers. The treaty had fifteen parts and 440 articles, Part I was the creation of the Covenant of the New League of Nations, Part II explained the new boundaries of Germany (Treaty of Versailles 2009) Finally Part III made a demilitarized zone and Germany was separated from Saar land for fifteen years. (Treaty of Versailles 2009) The Belgians and the French tried to carry out the treaty, which made them occupy Ruhr in 1922, however financial pressure urged France to scale down its goals and end the occupation. Under both the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan in 1924-1929 Germany finally agreed to pay for the damage they have caused, but due to the great depression the preparations were cancelled in 1932 (Treaty of Versailles. 2009). Germany violated many disarmament provisions of Part V of the treaty during the 1920s, as a matter of fact, in 1935 Hitler denounced the treaty out of respect to Austria,

As the World War One drew to a close in November of 1918, tensions were high and hostility towards Germany and the Axis Powers was potent. The Treaty of Versailles which ended the war, and which was devised to keep Germany from ever becoming an issue to Europe again would undoubtedly plunge the world into conflict just some 21 years later.

On 11 November 1918, an armistice, based on Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, was agreed upon by Germany and the Allied powers. The Treaty of Versailles, however, sharply differed from Wilson’s originally aims of ever-lasting war. The treaty outlined territorial, economic, and military concession and limitations that

April 1st, 1939, the day the war ended. Across Spain, Nationalists rejoiced over their victory, but with every victory there must also come a defeat, and the Republicans were scared as to what theirs meant. For months now, people had been desperately fleeing the Francoists. Their journey was filled with suffering, scores of people died from starvation or exposure to the cold, and their arrival was no better, with the French government refusing to offer aid and herding the refugees into transit camps and holding pens on the beach. They were rightfully afraid; dark days were coming for anyone with any connection to the left, but no one knew that at the time. As three of the most influential women in the anarchist movement planned their