Origins of WW1

One way that the Treaty of Versailles caused Germany anger was how much territory was taken from her. She lost 13.5 percent of her territory and about 7 million people to neighbouring countries because of the Treaty of Versailles. They also particularly didn’t like the loss 17800 square miles of land to the new country, Poland in the east and how Germany was separated into two parts by the Polish Corridor. The other losses included Alsace and Lorraine to France and other land to Belgium and Denmark. Germany also lost all of her overseas colonies, which were given to the Allies.

Another thing that angered Germany about the Treaty of Versailles was the high reparation claims. Germany had to take the blame for the war, which she hated doing, and was to pay the Allies for the cost of the war. She was expected to pay £6.6 billion pounds for the damage the war had cost the other countries. Germany then complained that the

What else made Germany angry was the control that the Treaty had on her armed forces. Germany was to reduce her army to 100,000 men and was not allowed to have any tanks. She also was only allowed a small navy with six battleships and no submarines, and also was not to have any air force at all. What made her even angrier was the fact that she had to disarm without a guarantee that the Allies would do the same.

In conclusion, the Treaty of Versailles was an aim at peace which angered Germany, but there were many other measures taken to preserve peace among European countries, and many of them were quite successful.

Germany also claimed that the conditions of the Treaty were discussed in secret by the others, and they forced them upon her. She said that the Treaty was a ‘diktat’, which means they had no say in what was in the Treaty. She reacted by Herr Schneidermann making a violent attack on the Treaty, calling it a murderous proposal.

One more measure taken to preserve peace in Europe was in 1928 with the Kellog-Briand pact. Briand, the French Foreign minister produced a plan that France and the USA should sign an agreement to renounce war. The American secretary of state, Kellog, highly supported the idea, and 65 countries signed, including Japan, USA and Russia. It state

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