were the paris peace settlements fair

Austria was forced to give up a huge amount of her industrial area, thus looked at their only route to prosperity which was through Germany but they had to sign a deal called the Anschluss which forbade them to join forces with Germany. The land lost by Austria was given to;
Poland who took control of Galicia, Bohemia and Moravia went to Czechoslovakia, Dalmatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was given to Yugoslavia. Bukovina was handed to Romania and Trentino, the South Tyrol and Istria, and the port of Trieste were given to Italy.
Austria lost fifteen million of her population as well as three quarters of her territory due to the treaty of St Germain.

Hungary which was a part of Austria-Hungary had become an independent country due to the treaty of Trianon. This meant that Hungary had lost a lot of her land to;
Czechoslovakia which took over Slovenia and Ruthenia and Yugoslavia which took Croatia, Slovenia and Bonat.

Bulgaria was also forced to make reparations when she signed the treaty of Neuilly. She lost Northern Macedonia to Yugoslavia, Dobruja to Romania and the Western Thrace to Greece.  

Turkey had lost the Western Thrace (link between Europe and Asia) to the Greek people. This was an area which turkey would not want to give up and did so only because they were threatened with force. Another factor was that the majority of the land that Turkey lost was given to either France or Britain as a mandate. This allowed them to control what was going on in those countries and more importantly the oil that was in those countries. This was due to the Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne.

The Italians were upset that they did not get the land that they deserved as they felt that they were not getting the respect they deserved from the British and the French.
The victorious nations did not reduce the size of their armies. This was unfair as all the defeated powers had their armies reduced.

On the other hand the Paris Peace Settlements had sum justice in them. The size of every defeated powers army was reduced which would act as a way to restrict the amount of influence they had military wise.
Germany’s army was reduced to one hundred thousand men and were not allowed tanks. She was not allowed an air force, six naval ships but no submarines.
Austria’s army was reduced to thirty thousand men. This was due to the fact that the size of the country was reduced massively.
Hungary’s army was reduced to thirty five thousand men and to hand over all of her war criminals.
Turkey also had her army reduced in size.

Another factor after the war that was fair was that all the defeated nations lost their over-seas colonies. This was a good idea as it would stop a big empire from growing.
Germany lost German East Africa (Tanzania) to Britain.
Cameroon lost to the French
German South West Africa (part of South Africa) to Britain.

Turkey lost vast amounts of land in Asia; this included.
The kingdom of Hijaz which became an independent country
Syria which was lost to France and Palestine
Mesopotamia (Iraq) to Britain
Armenia which became independent.

Germany and her allies had damaged France and Belgium enabling it to be adequate for Germany and her allies to pay some sort of reparations for the damage that had been caused.
The western area of Germany called the Rhineland was to become a de militarized zone where no German troops were allowed in. This was a good plan from France as it would allow no further invasions from the Germans.

When Russia retreated from the war due to a revolution in her country the Germans signed a treaty with them called the Treaty of Brest-Litousle. This treaty was very harsh to the Russians and would have indicated what Germany would have forced upon the victorious nations if she was victorious over them.

The land that Germany had invaded and taken off of France was returned to the French. This area was called Alsace-Lorraine and was taken by Germany in the recent past.

The formation of the League of Nations as proposed by Woodrow Wilson was a good plan. This would enable all the powers of the world to be able to put forward their concerns and requests thus causing the League of Nations to act upon these concerns and requests. The Paris Peace Settlements were balanced on different needs which allow different countries to have different settlements in respect to their situation.

In conclusion I disagree that the Paris Peace Settlements were fair as the British and the French allowed themselves to take excess land. This meant that even some of the victorious nations felt they were not getting enough land as they deserve. This is shown as a few years later the victorious nations that believe they should have received more land start to take things into their own hands and take more land. I believe that too much land was taken off the defeated nations and this would cause them to be unsatisfied with the outcome of the settlements. This is shown as a few years after the defeated nations started to take some of their lost land back from the occupying countries.