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The Treaty Of Versailles Ended World War I

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The Second World War took approximately 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 lives (“World War II”). But this total does not include the millions not accounted for, many of them infants. The war had many causes, but the vast fault lay on a piece of writing from twenty years before the war even started. The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I but instigated the events that led up to World War II. Because the treaty of Versailles was so harsh on Germany, the effects of those terms allowed the Nazi party to form and ultimately led to the beginning of World War II. The Treaty of Versailles was said to end the “war of all wars” or in other words ended World War I, but it was the trigger for a far worse war to come. The Treaty of Versailles was just a mess. There was bias and cruelty spread throughout the whole document. Those terms smothered with bias and cruelty was what set off the chain of events that would eventually, about twenty years later, start World War II.
First off, there were many writers of the treaty at first, and then it went down to ten. From there the most influential goes down to four. But the biggest of them all were the “Big Three”. They were Georges Clemenceau of France, Lloyd George of Britain, and Woodrow Wilson from America. These delegates were very different from each other, especially on the ground of the punishments. Clemenceau, coming from France, was very biased. France had seen the most damage during the war, so of course he wanted to see Germany

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