"Was the treaty of Versailles fair?"

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Maryam Ahmad

"Was the treaty of Versailles fair?"

The treaty of Versailles was a treaty, which was signed at the end of World war one. Germany had lost the war, and therefore the allies, who had won the war, decided to hold a conference in a Paris, this conference was called the Paris Peace Conference and it was to decide what they should do now having won the war.

The Countries represented in the Conference were France by their Prime minister Georges Clemenceau, England by their prime minister David Lloyd George and America by their president Woodrow Wilson. The prime minister of Italy Vittro Orlando was not present at the place where the treaty discussed, even though Italy was part of the winning side. The reason why Italy was left out was that before the war Italy had been part of the triple alliance, when the war broke out Italy decided to withdraw from the triple alliance and therefore she joined the allies, for this reason Italy was not thought trusty worthy. Germany was not invited to this meeting. This is thought to be because England and France wanted to blame the war on Germany and