Discuss the view that the Versailles treaty created as many problems as it solved.

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Jonathan Mitchell

Discuss the view that the Versailles treaty created as many problems as it solved.

On the 28th June 1919 at Versailles Palace in France the Germans signed one of the most influential peace treaties ever proposed by democracies. The Germans believed the treaty to be a farcical document littered with anti German clauses designed to cripple Germany. France however, with probably the highest economic and physical damage from the war, saw the treaty as to lenient on the Germans. Britain and the USA (France, USA, Britain being affectionate named the big three due to there status after the war) were more liberal and forgiving about the punishment Germany should receive. Britain and the USA were more concerned with the long term economic and political threats that a decimated German state could pose to the international balance of power in Europe. Historians for years have pondered over the harshness or leniency of the treaty and what by doing so it caused in later day Europe.

During the First World War most of the physical warfare had been conducted on French and Belgium soil, not touching German or British land. The French felt within their