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This piece is part of a news paper project we did in global studies in my sophomore year as way to review what we had learned about WWI and WWII. It was interesting doing this project because i felt like i was presenting a case to someone and had presented it well ( I Also got a 90 or 95 0n it)



Did or did not the treaty of Versailles cause WWII
　
As you may now the treaty of Versailles was the treaty that officially ended WWI; blaming Germany and requiring it to pay heavy reparations to the allies who had won the war. This caused a lot of things, like the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the weak economy in Germany, an unstable government, also the rise of a fascist leader IN Germany because of the many political parties that no one agreed on nothing. Also the rise of other fascist leaders in Italy, Japan and Spain. This treaty that gave “birth’’ to the league of nation is also to blame for the war for not making sure that the peace was kept
The treaty its self was to harsh overall. The error of the Treaty of Versailles, was that it made Germany pay all reparation. Instead, what they could have made the reparations equal between Germany and the Austria-Hungary empire. Then the reparations could have meet the demands of the treaty of Versailles and then the government of Germany would have money (even if it was a little bit) to help the people and step by step have jobs to help Germany recover from the war. An example of what the government of Germany could have done with the money saved would be to make things in factories that would help clean up Germany and things that where needed to help Germany recover from the war. With these things the factories would be making a profit and then more production would have been made. This would have made jobs for the people of Germany and companies would be making money and the economy would have recovered little by little . (But because the opposite happened and then Germany started attacking every one the League of Nations failed to stop them and other fascists leaders in order to prevent war. They gave into appeasement.
But since all the blame was put on Germany, AND they had to pay heavy reparations. So the government had to print more money and then the value went down causing an inflation. Soon things cost a lot and people couldn’t buy regular things.
The treaty of Versailles that DID caused WWII. If these things never happened (like the bad economy and the inflation of prices)the people of Germany would have never I REPEAT NEVER would have wanted revenge.