Compare And Contrast The Treaty Of Versailles And The League Of Nations

The Treaty of Versaille and the Congress of Vienna are major treaties that in their own way, played major parts in world history. The Congress of Vienna was created post Napoleon Era to fix the damages that France created during that time period. Nearly 100 years later, the Treaty of Versaille officially ended the first World War between Germany and the rest of the leaders of Europe including England, France, and the United States. Being from different periods of time, both agreements settled an unbalance of power and created systems to rebuild Europe into a better form. A difference between the two can be seen as the Congress of Vienna was to rebuild while the purpose for the Treaty of Versailles was to end the war and hold Germany responsible for what they did. Although the Treaty of Versaille and the Congress of Vienna share some common similarities and differences including the equality of land distribution and balance of powers, the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versaille are more similar than different because, “The Vienna Settlement of 1815 has been ranked with the Peace of Westphalia (1648), the Peace of Utrecht (1713), and the Peace of Paris (1919) as one of the four most significant international agreements in the history of modern Europe”(Concert of Europe 1).

Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech (Document B) expresses a more similar message to the political cartoon (Document C) because both sources oppose the League of Nations. The League of Nations was introduced in the Treaty of Versailles. This League provided a place for countries to meet, settle disputes peacefully, and punish any nation that broke the peace. At the time the league was introduced, there started to be a heated debate to weather the United States should be involved. Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech (Document B) has a similar message to the political cartoon because both of these sources prove that the League of NAtions is harmful or has a negative effect to the United States.

Peace is the ability to manage conflict. It is a commitment to understanding, it is a commitment to nurture all and harm none. Peace is when everyone is equal and treated the same. However, this was not the case at the end of World war I. As the leaders made negotiations they did not commit to understanding the circumstances during the time, they did not nurture one another or other countries, as they left Germany deceived. The Treaty of Versailles was an attempt to create peace which led to another conflict. In article 159 an excerpt located in the Treaty Versailles reads “The German military forces shall be demolished and reduced as prescribed hereinafter”, is this peace? David Lloyd, the Prime Minister of Great Britain read from of his speeches “We propose to demand the whole cost of the war from Germany”, is this peace? Peace escalated tension between the leaders and

WWI and the Versailles Treaty had only a marginal (limited) relationship to the world Depression of the 1930s

World War I and World War II should not be considered one event and brought together to be known as the Great War. Though the two wars are vaguely linked, their differences outweigh the similarities between them so they can be known as separate events. From alliances to warfare, everything was different. The only similarity between the two is that the Treaty of Versaille ended World War I and started World War II.

The Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles are two of the “most significant international agreements in the history of modern Europe” (Packet). They not only ended drastic and intense wars, but they rearranged and changed the face of Europe. The Congress of Vienna aimed to restore the principles prior to the Napoleonic Era, including conservatism, legitimacy, and the balance of powers. The diplomats of this treaty agreed on a collective security, to protect one another from future revolutions. The Treaty of Versailles, on the other hand, had several different aims. One of the main goals was to restrict Germany from anymore fighting in the future. Another included the right of self-determination for newly established states. The diplomats, however, had trouble completely agreeing on the components of the treaty. The overall similarity of the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles is the creation of alliances and “systems of international relations”, such as the Concert of Europe and the League of Nations, as a means of protection against future complications (Packet). The main difference between the two treaties is the treatment towards the crushed powers, France and Germany. Although the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles are similar because of the creation of alliances and systems, overall, the two treaties are different because of the contrasting treatments of France and Germany after the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War.

Together with the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations was established, with the aims of “disarmament,; preventing war through collective security,; settling disputes

France and Britain made Germany sign The Versailles Peace Treaty but once Hitler became the leader of Germany, he wanted to change everything in Germany and make it powerful like it was once before. The League of Nations came into being after the end of World War One. The League of Nation’s task was simple to ensure that war never broke out again but eventually the League of Nations failed. As the League of Nations crumbled, politicians turned to a new way to keep the peace appeasement. This was the policy of giving Hitler what he wanted to stop him from going to war. It was based on the idea that what Hitler wanted was reasonable and, when his reasonable demands had been satisfied, he would stop. There were many reasons why Chamberlin appeased Hitler. A few of them

World War II is something of a continuation of World War I, as unresolved issues showed their heads once more, in addition to the Treaty of Versailles being broken. World War I included Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States, against Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Similarly, World War 2 included Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, and the United States against Germany, Italy, and Japan. The two wars have many countries in common, among many other similarities. The Treaty of Versailles was one of peace what was instated at the end of World War I. Signed on 28 Junie 1919, the treaty required that Germany relinquished Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

The Treaty of Versailles and Congress of Vienna are two vastly different peace treaties, signed one hundred years apart; yet, have the same underlying goal. Of course history has proven that one was significantly more successful than the other in regard to diplomacy.

The Successes and Failures of the Treaty of Versailles in Addressing the Causes of Conflict and Restoring Peace and Normality

To begin, The League of Nations, and The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles were equivalent in copious procedures. The two resolutions incorporated a multitudinous amount of differences between the two, essentially

The Versailles succeeded in accomplishing some of Wilson’s goals. In fact, it established the League of Nations, the body critical to his vision of a new international order (Foner 761). In addition to this, it applied the principle of self-determination to eastern Europe and reconstructed the map of that region. Starting with the ruins of the Astro-Hungarian empire as well as parts of Germany and czarist Russia, new European nations formed as a result of the War-Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Yugoslavia (Foner 761). Moreover, in spite of Wilson’s oath of peace without territorial gains or retribution, the Versailles Treaty was a jarring document that all but promised future conflict in Europe.

In this essay, I am going to look at the successes and failures of the League of Nations (LofN) in its struggle for peace throughout the 1920’s. The LofN was the ‘brain child’ of American president Woodrow Wilson. The four other main powers (Britain, France, Japan and Italy) joined along with approximately 60 other countries from around the world. The U.S.A then abandoned its ‘child’ as to social and economic unrest led to a more isolationist foreign policy. Yet the other four main countries continued to support the LofN and formed the council, consisting to the ‘most powerful countries’. The LofN was set up to enforce peace in Europe and the world. It created various

"The League of Nations was doomed To failure from the start" Adam Jenner Many may believe that the League of Nations was doomed to failure as soon as the doors of their Geneva headquarters were opened; many may say that it was built on unstable foundations; that the very idea of it was a grave misjudgment by the powers that were. Indeed it is true that the League of Nations, when it was set up was marred with many fundamental flaws. The League of Nations was formed after the end of the First World War. It was an idea that President Wilson introduced as an international police force to maintain peace and to ensure the devastating atrocities like the First World War ever happening again. The principle mission of the League of Nations was to maintain World Peace. Their failure as the international peacekeeping organization to maintain world peace brought the outbreak of Second World War. Their failure in policing and preventing peace in settling disputes throughout Europe, erupted into the most devastating war ever. Through my analysis of the failures of the League of Nations to maintain world peace, my arguments will demonstrate the understandings of the reasons and events that created the most devastating environment for the Second World War.