History essay:
In what ways did the treaty of Versailles threaten the survival of the Weimer republic?
The treaty of Versailles was established to significantly weaken the economy of Germany. It was established in June 1919 by Woodrow Wilson (president of USA), George Clemenceau (prime mister of France) and David Lloyd George (prime minster of Great Britain) they were called the ‘big three’ and were allies in world war one. The five terms they discussed was territorial agreements, war guilt, reparations, disarmament and maintaining peace. Their ideas were for territorial agreement to take about thirteen percent of land away from Germany and they would distribute the German colonies as mandates under control of countries supervised by the league this would make sure those different colonies were not going together to start another war. The war guilt clause was that Germany accepted all blamed for causing the war therefore accepting all loses and damage this meant they had to pay for all damage, this lead them into reparation in 1921 the sum was fixed at £6600 million. The disarmament was that Germany had to abolish conscription and reduce its army to 100,000, no tanks or guns were allowed and finally maintaining peace Germany had to accept the Covenant of the League of Nations but initially was not allowed to join. In total Germany had a huge loss population twelve percent, agriculture production fifteen percent, and iron ore forty eight percent and coal fifteen percent. The treaty of Versailles had a huge impact on Germany and caused problems in various ways being politically, socially and economically and many could say it was the treaty of Versailles that caused world war two and the rise of Hitler.
