Reports from the Front: The Battle for Verdun, 1916 shows that the Germans were resolved to a

Although the Treaty of Versailles was seen as mostly unsuccessful, historian Arthur Walworth was of the opinion that Wilson’s goals, for the most part, were successful. In Walworth’s Peace and Diplomacy, he sets forth a comparative look at the peace settlements of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. The book makes allusions to reasons why the agreements that were achieved after the war were not whole efforts of peace, but efforts to fortify France’s already weak defenses against any future onslaughts. The Treaty of Versailles was full of counter efforts to Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The voraciousness of the German efforts in defeating France was reflected in the vengeful terms imparted by France and England in the treaty. Many of these terms were cause for future conflict which inspired World War II. Walworth states, “At the end of the war the European diplomats were of two minds about a policy to preserve peace”. He goes on saying that the two view points which caused the counter productivity, one being preventive diplomacy and the other being defense for the weakened nations, were inevitable because there were no diplomacy standards in place before the fact.

ccomplish their goals of the war by any means necessary. This account comes from the book, Source Records of the Great War, vol. IV. The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. New warfare tactics such as trench warfare, machine guns, and poison gas made rapid advancement toward a particular goal very difficult in the least.

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