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Was Germany treated fairly at the end of World War One
The principal peace terms concluding World War I were drawn up at a conference held at Paris beginning in January 1919, and signed in June. The Treaty of Versailles set the surrender conditions for Germany and at the same time provided for the establishment of the League of Nations. If all the points that were discussed in this peace treaty and that Germany had to pay, the first question that can be analyzed is: “Was Germany treated fairly at the end of World War One? ... In order to answer this question, there are some points in the treaty that have to be analyzed very well: Germany was not allowed to participate at the parleys, military problem regarding Germany, loss of territory and the reparations that she had to pay for the lost of the war. All these points can show that Germany was not treated fairly at the end of the war.
“It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us” – are the words that the President of United States Wilson increased at the beginning of the peace treaty. “All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest” shows that Wilson considers all the countries to be equal in rights. ... The defeated powers, included Germany, did not participate in the negotiations. Because of this, Germany had to sign a treaty in which she had taken no part. ... " However, after they found out all the payments that had to pay for the war (they found out this only after three years), they protested these terms loudly but to no avail. They were told that if they refused to sign, Allied troops would occupy Germany and the British would maintain indefinitely their naval blockade. In this way, Germany had to sign the treaty, because they could not get food for everybody (its economy was destroyed after the war). Even thaw Wilson saw himself
as a reformer and was part of the Triple Entente, he did not regard Germany as the principal source of instability or as the country responsible for the outbreak of the Great War (the country responsible for the beginning of world war is consider to be Austria-Hungary because its government demanded almost complete control over Serbia, as a punishment for the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie).
Approximate Word count = 2072
Approximate Pages = 8.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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