The treaty of versailles created more problems than it solved

        Germans were particularly angered by the war resolutions and deemed the provisions of the Treaty unjust and unfair. According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was required to give up various territories, such as Alsace, West Prussia, and colonies overseas to the Allies. Thus, numerous Germans were relocated after the treaty instituted new borders in an attempt to take away German colonies. At the same time, both its army and navy suffered severe cuts and Germany had to pay reparations to compensate for the civilian damage done in the war. However, the worst provision was the "war guilt clause" in which Germany was to be fully blamed for starting the war. Germans were devastated at the harsh provisions of the treaty, and one man, Adolf Hitler was especially angered. Declaring that Germans would never again "remain pacifist for ever and live forever on the Treaty of Versailles"(7), Hitler and his followers, who formed the National Socialist German Worker's Party, or the NAZIS, were able to gain complete control in Germany, and managed to turn the provisions of the Treaty upside down. Hitler ruled Germany during a time when life was rough. After World War I, most European states suffering under reparations and war debts damaged the postwar economy and the Great Depression of 1929 added to the nightmare. After American investor began to pull money out of Germany to invest it in the American stock market, numerous German banks began to weaken. At the same time, trade was decreasing and unemployment was on the rise. In Germany, for example, 40 percent of the German labor force was unemployed. "German Children Are Starving", depicted one portrait of hungry German children, created by a German artist.

        The Treaty of Versailles, which to redrew boundaries created new states was violated when Hitler decided to invade Poland, on Sept.1, 1930, in an attempt to win back the part of East Prussia that the treaty had ceded to Poland. East Prussia would have given Poland access to the Baltic Sea, otherwise known as the Polish Corridor, but Hitler refused to allow such a harsh treaty to simply tear down German nationalism and prevent Germany from fulfilling what he considered to be her historic destiny of dominating all of Europe. This triggered the Second World War.

        In conclusion, peace certainly was not the end result of the 1919 peace treaty. Like numerous historians, in an analysis of the Treaty, it was inevitable that twenty years later the world become involved in a Second World War. However, some argue that perhaps if the provisions of the treaty had been rigorously enforced, Europe would not have had to deal with the many conflicts that it did, once World War I came to an end. Because of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany suffered a collapse of power and practically every Eastern European state was left to deal with various minority groups that were destined to create future problems. Said one architect after the war, "the old forms are in ruins, the benumbed world is shaken up...We float in space and cannot yet perceive the new order."(4) Truly, it was quite unfortunate to all the nations involved, that a treaty which was meant to reconcile major issues that had caused the war, subsequently resulted in increasing problems which fueled the fire for the next war.