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Is the Treaty of Versailles justified?
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19th June 1919
THE DAILY MAIL
Is the Treaty of Versailles justified?
At the beginning of this week, after months of negotiation between the 'Big Three', two German representatives arrived in France to sign the treaty sign the Treaty of Versailles, stating that Germany is blame for the Great War. The question is why have the Germans given in and signed the treaty and can the treaty be justified?
The Germans were in an impossible position and had to sign the treaty. They basically had no choice as they were incapable of restarting the war again. They either had to sign the treaty they would have most probably have been invaded by the Allies. The treaty was needed mainly to stop fighting between different countries, stop another war happening and to punish Germany for the causing of the war.
Everyone had different aims for the treaty, all of the 'Big Three' wanted to stop a war ever happening again, but they couldn't agree on how to do this.
Every one wanted different things from the treaty. That is the reason why the treaty has taken so long to finalise. The main aims of the
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