Germany's Responsibility For WWI

At the end of WWI many countries blamed Germany for starting the war. These countries used the Treaty of Versailles to punish Germany. These punishments included loss of land and military, infeasible reparations, and complete humiliation; this is how the Treaty of Versailles directly caused WWII.

Due to Germany taking back the colonies lost after World War I and forming an alliance with Austria, Germany’s actions against the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the cause of World War II. After Germany got slapped with a $33 Billion dollar war reparation bill and Kaiser Wilhelm was removed from power, Germany was a mess, which allowed the rise of Hitler. Hitler, being a former Iron Cross winning

Although, many countries blamed other countries for the war, the main being the Triple Entente blaming Germany and Austria-Hungary blaming

At the Versailles Peace conference, German delegate, Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, pointed out that “the imperialism of all European states has chronically poisoned international relations” (Doc 5), making hostility between countries more apparent and war more likely. Along with that, he mentioned that they fought the war defensively in response to the military advances made by their enemies. The author’s background being German should also be taken into account, as a German delegate is likely to favor their own country and be biased toward them. Thus, every country in Europe holds some responsibility for the causing of World War

World War II was partly caused by the Versailles Treaty. The Treaty infuriated Germany by taking their money, land and resources, and blaming them for World War l. All of this made Germany want to rise to power and start another World War. One of the reasons Germany was so mad about the Treaty of Versailles is it blamed Germany for the war. The Treaty stated, “...Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all loss and damage.” (Doc D) Germany did not agree that they were responsible for all the damage of the war; they thought this was extremely unfair.

WWI was the cause of problems in countries all throughout the World. There is a wide variety of opinions on who started the war. But one country should not be blamed for the outbreak of war. Instead, all the European countries are at fault for causing WWI because of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism.

Germany feared the shifting power balance in Europe and therefore made some unnecessary moves that contributed to WWI happening. The power balance in Europe was relatively equal with the creation of the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). However, Germany was surrounded

The three main countries involved were Great Britain, France and America. The three main people involved were Woodrow Wilson(America),George Clemenceau(France) and David Lloyd Georges Clemenceau clearly showed that he wanted Germany to be punished severely. Clemenceau wants to take revenge on Germany since Germany destroyed north east corner of France. Even the French public had a similar opinion on Germany. This was unfair because the treaty of Versailles was used as revenge rather than a peace treaty. George(Great Britain). David Lloyd publicly promised “Make Germany pay”-This was published in a British newspaper. So he supported reparations. He felt that Germany should be treated in such a way that Germany should just be a place to resist communism. He feared that the German govt. will turn to communism and Germany was the only country in central Europe to stop communism. He didn’t want Germany to get a harsh punishment. Woodrow Wilson focused on creating a powerful league of nations to maintain peace. He didn’t want Germany receiving a harsh punishment. He focused on reuniting Europe rather than getting revenge on Germany. He created “Fourteen points” which included ending secret treaties, reducing armed forces and weapons and all countries should belong to the League of Nations. Germany was not even involved in making of the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Two

The First World War was not caused singularly by Germany and Austria-Hungary as the treaty of Versailles has set out. Germany is greatly responsible for much of the tension of the world situation in 1914, resulting from its aggressive policy of Weltpolitik, its attempts to have a superior navy, the Kaiser's personal poorly said remarks, and its attempts to break up the Triple Entente. However Germany was not solely responsible for the tension, many other events had occurred outside Germany's control, which had the same effect. Germany was also largely responsible for allowing the conflict in the Balkans to escalate into a major European conflict, by giving Austria-Hungary free reign, though it was not their intent. However Germany should

There are 440 clauses total in the Treaty of Versailles; the first Twenty Six are for The League of Nations, the other 414 are Germany’s punishment. Because German was left without any support due to these punishments, the country’s economy plummeted, the population starved, and the infrastructure failed catastrophically. Although Germany committed various war crimes deserving of chastisement, the punishment given to Germany was unjust and paved the way to the second world war.

By the fall of 1917, the stalemate in Europe had loosened as Russia Empire collapsed and the Italian army was destroyed and forced to retreat. Thus the European theater was reduced from a 3 - front war to a 1 - front war. This allowed Germany to focus more resources on the meat grinder of the Western Front (MM - 317). Yet, American forces were still preparing and unable to help the impending threat of a German Offensive Campaign.

In the year 1939, Germany invaded Poland, marking many historians’ accounts of the true beginning of World War II. During this, it became known that Germany was taking a major role in the Holocaust, the mass killing of Jewish people. It was a brutal killing of men, women and children who were treated like they were nothing. In this essay will tell you the facts about the mass killings and how they were done. It is disturbing to think that some people choose to believe that the Holocaust never happened and was a made up event. However, research, artifacts, pictures, and survivors are able to prove that this horrid event really did happen.

Many countries were involved in WWI, Germany being one of them. It is arguable whether Germany is responsible for the outbreak of war or rather the responsibility of individual countries such as Britain, Russia, France, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans collectively. However, Germany should be blamed to the full extent of starting WW1 due to the reasons that Germany had unconditional support for Austria, Germany 's war plans were planned to cause more conflict and Germany 's mobilization schedule.

     Although in the Treaty of Versailles Germany was to accept full responsibility for World War 1 this in not necessarily the case. Many factors have to be taken into account when considering the cause of World War 1. Germany may have been primarily responsible for the war but the other major powers must accept some of the blame for failing to prevent it. The conflict resulting from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinard should have been local and confined but due to a series of factors, militarism, the alliance system, nationalism, this one incident led to the greatest war Europe had ever seen. As a result of underlying hostilities the assassination led to a chain of

war I was not most destructive and was not the first total war in history. World war I was a tragedy because did not accomplish anything except for creating social economic condition. In the 19th century, people created modern society that modern society most people agreed and most people of disagreed about economic term when people mass production and mass consumption. But People were ruled by European colonies, people wanted democracy. However, world war I was the blame for the war on Germany, which proven ruinous to Germany economic and destructive its political institution. Also, world war I was disaster for Russia because it facilitates the risk of Bolsheviks seized power. Russian two phrase revolution destroy whole empire(409). Therefore,