Treaty of Versailles

Essay Question 2 The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty were designed to prevent Germany from ever threatening the world again. How did it attempt to do this? What were its strength? Weaknesses? Be as complete as possible, tracing the evolution of peace proposals, treaties, and describing the perspectives and goals of each belligerent state. The ideas of a policy to support a peaceful society began on Jan. 8, 1918 when Woodrow Wilson, President of the United …

…were drawn, self-determination was only applied if it was to benefit the allies. Once again, this created an unfair feeling among the citizens of Germany and feelings of hostility mounted. Several points of the treaty were in fact strictly beneficial. One of the most important being that Germany was allowed to remain a! s a state of their own. This put into practice the nation-state idea that Wilson laid out in his 14 points. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**