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The War Of The World War II

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Introduction

The First World War left massive destructions in the world since many people lost their lives and even property. These massive destructions were as partly as a result of the introduction of new war weapons, for example, machine guns and gas warfare. This war was majorly between Germany and the Allied power but Germany was blamed for the destructions that came about because they are said to have initiated the war (Kissinger, 2014). These destructions made people have a lot of fear towards any kind of war and nobody wished for any war to start again because people feared losing lives and property once again. It is said that hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Western Front particularly lost their lives in this war.
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Among the contents of this treaty is that Germany was forced to share its territory with other countries like Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland which led to a reduction in the territory of Germany by about ten percent. This nation was also forced to return Alsace and Lorraine to France. All the overseas countries that had been colonized by Germany were placed under the mandate of the League of Nations and Danzig city which had a larger population of the Germans became a Free city (Kissinger, 2014).
The “War Guilt Clause” in this document forced Germany to admit that it was responsible for starting the First World War. For that reason, Germany was made liable for all the losses that resulted from the war and as a result, they were required to pay reparations to the allied nations to act as a compensation for the losses that had been realized. It was clear that Germany could not be in a position to pay for these losses because they were lots although the actual cost of these losses had not been made. The Allied nations insisted that Germany was supposed to pay for the losses and if they failed they were to be judged for the same. Clemenceau who was one of the “big four” wanted to ensure that Germany could not be in a position to start any other war in the future. For that reason, there were measures put in place. The number of the German men in the army was greatly reduced; there was an elimination of the general staff, the making of

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