Why was the treaty of Versailles ultimately unsuccessful?
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The treaty forced Germany intol backrupcy. Their currency inflated and France and the other victors began demanding reparations in Gold. France seized German production facilities later in order to get what it felt it was owed. The unemployment rate in Germany soared and it paved the way for Hitler's ascent to power.
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The us has one of the worst histories in upholding treaty obligations, they are made then broken when they can take advantage of it. My people, American indians engaged with the governement in 535+ treaties, all of which were broken by the US at their earliest possible convience, so no never trust a treaty
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Well, since the Central Powers were Germany, Austria, and Hungary, I would guess that the German and Hungarian communities tried to get the U.S. swinging that way.  Good thing we stuck with the Allies.
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One of the (many) causes of WW2 was the monetary reparations forced upon Germany following WW1.  The Treaty of Versailles (which states how much the Germans 'owed', among other forms of 'punishment') was greatly hated in Germany and gave momentum to both the Nazi and the Communist movements in Germany.  Not wanting a repeat of that, after WW2, the allied forces decided to go a completely different way with their defeated enemies - military occupation.  Rather than forcing Germany and Japan to make payments, the allied forces divided up the areas controlled by Germany and Japan.
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At the end of WWI, the US very much wanted to help rebuild and bring Germany back into the fold-in fact rebuilding Europe as a more integrated continent was forfront the the US devising of the League of Nations.  Unfortunately, the other allies very much wanted to punish Germany, to teach it a lesson, since they are still stuck in the "great powers" mindset.  This devastated the country, and allowed the growth of a "victim" mentality-used against Jews as internal enemies and the other European countries as external enemies.  At the end of WWII, the US was in a position this time to dictate that Germany would be rebuilt and reintegrated.  Though we don't like to see anything particularly good about Stalin's Russia (and there werent that many good things) they also kept punishment to a minimum, and integrated East Germany into their system..the cause of the poor conditions in East Germany was much more a factor of the system than it was of any punishment.  The German people themselves have maintained a very clear and active analysis of their collective guilt, which has been far more effective in resolving issues than external punishment.
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Well, key isolationist move was Senate refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, which would have dedicated US troops to support the League of Nations, which was proposed by President Wilson.  This kept the US out of the League, which was a failure (before being resurrected as the United Nations which is, as we know, also a failure).
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Actually, Germany collapsed economically and Austria collapsed because of racial and ethnic disillusionment.\n\nIn 1916, the German High Command initiated War Socialism so that the government would set prices for everything regardless of the situation. From that point on, German industry and agriculture produced as little as humanly possible and, even though Germany occupied Poland Rumania and the Ukraine over half a million Germans starved to death. The Austro-Hungarian empire had been tottering since 1848 when it recognized Hungarian autonomy, but as the war continued to go badly the various nationalities began to support the war less and less. In 1917 Emperor Max attempted to negotiate a separate peace, and the German army basically occupied the capital city, Vienna. By November of 1918, many of the ethnic army units marched home and many of the ethnic provinces declared their indepence.
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The worst social ramification of the Treaty of Versailles was the empoverishment of German people. The treaty set an unnecessarily heavy retribution for that nation to pay. \n\nGermans never accepted the harsh punishment imposed on them by the victorious nations, and a feeling of animosity gradually grew among them against the rest of Europe. That animosity made possible the rise of political forces that advocated extreme measures for Germany to overcome its hardships, which ultimately culminated in World War II.
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It's basically who ever is on the upside of a treaty wins. Sometimes like in the WWs the central and axis powers lost by accepting an unconditional surrender (complete surrender). Sometimes it is who ever conquers the whole country, not necessarily by determined by casualties.
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As a result of Yalta agreements.\n\nWhat is the alternative - to give it to Germany (it was part of Eastern Prussia)?
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it's nearly impossible to say, but it would have been different\nbecause of the reperations from WWI, germany was in an economic disaster\npeople were angry and unemployed, and hitler gave the people a scapegoat
539455
Aside from the fact it would never get passed, there are all kinds of Due Processes of Law that it would contradict. The country was founded on the basis of many freedoms and the right to pursue happiness.
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The Treaty Of Versailles laid down the penalties which Germany had to suffer for starting World War 1 (or you might say for losing WW1). These inlcude penalties in the form of payments of money & resources such as coal, a limit on the size of their armed forces & the prohibition of those armed forces entering certain parts of the country such as the Saarland (a coal rich area).\n\nThe call for the heads of "the Versailles traitors" (ie the beaten German leaders of 1918 who signed the treaty) was one of the slogans which helped the Nazis into power.
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Woodrow Wilson's'  League of Nations was a dismal failure that did lead to the Second World War.
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I actually know what you are talking about, this concerns the agreement at Munich in 1938 and the subsequent violation of the agreement by Germany when they invaded and occupied Czechoslavakia in 1939.\n\nPrior to the agreement, France and Soviet Russia had an agreement to militarily guarantee Czech independence. When Hitler began his demands for the Sudetenland and Czechs refused, Stalin had offered to honor the agreement and send the Red Army into Czechoslavakia. Instead, Britain and France reached an agreement with Hitler (brokered by Mussolini) without consulting either Czechoslavakia or Soviet Russia.\n\nFirst, the idea was that the plebiscites in the early 1920's that re-drew the map of Eastern Europe had been fundamentally flawed; all agreed that votes had been held only in areas likely to vote against Austria and Germany, the Sudetenland had been instead mixed in with the Czechs and the Bohemians. Second, because of what was going on in the Spanish Civil War (where the Russians were actually killing more good buy Spaniards than Fascist Spaniards) it was believed that if the Soviets entered Czechoslavakia they would never leave and besides the Nazis hated Socialists while the Soviets hated Capitalists. Third, since all of France's east European allies had signed non-aggression treaties with Germany, France and Britian felt they would not be able to reach the Czechs until they had been obliterated by the Germans and Soviets anyways.\n\nYes, there is every indication that, without the Skodja Works in Czechoslavakia, Germany would not have been strong enough to have fought the Czech, Soviet, French and British armies in 1938 and Hitler would have had to have seen the logic of backing down and accepting humiliation. If he had, there are indications that the German Army high command, under General Beck, would have staged a coup and arrested Hitler and his Nazis, then negotiated a peace.\n\nThis would, of course, then have left Stalin in control of both Spain and Czechoslavakia, while Germany was substantially weakened, leaving the door open to the Red Army. The Second World War would have still happened, but it would have eventually been Britain and France crossing the Somme to try to kick Russia out of central Europe.
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No. Thue USA did not join. One of the reasons the League of Nations was not successful was because the USA, which was a powerful country, was not part of it.
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Following WWI at the treaty of Versilles Germany was declared to pay reparations for the war even through it had no funds to do so and WWI in general was a pointless war and fault was mutual all around. This is important for two reasons. One it cemented in Hitlers head that Germany was a scapegoat and two it gave him a chance to gain power as Germany went into a deep inflation and he prommised to bring Germany out, but he did so by building a war machine for which had to be put to use to be, well for the lack of a better term useful and to sustain Germany's economy. I hope that answer does not rationalize Hitler as he was nuts. Secondly at the treaty the delegates gave part of the sudentland which was part of germany away and this gave Hitler valid fuel to state that the Germany's citizens were deprived of self determination and what country they were going to belong to. Also in an attempt to smooth over relations with Japan after Wilson did not want them to hold power within the league of naions as they were asian promised them the shantung penninsula which was part of china, again violating the self determination of peoples, but at the same time giving japan a strong foothold in resource rich china which was important to Japan's new capitalistic economy that was struggling to survive as the US was dominant in manchuria and pacific. In order to become more economically powerful the Japanese attacked pearl harbor in the hopes that the US fleet would be destroyed and therefore not able to defend its overseas interests and consequently gain more control over its economy.