The Treaty of Versailles’ punishments exhausted Germany’s already weakened economy, which ultimately caused the Weimar Republic to collapse under the weight of such hardships. After Germany signed the treaty, it faced a multitude of harsh consequences, mainly wanted by France and Great Britain. The effects of these consequences are illustrated in ‘Clemenceau the Vampire’ from the German newspaper Kladderadatsch, published July, 1919 (Document B). In this cartoon, Georges Clemenceau, the French prime minister at the time, is portrayed as an ugly vampire biting a woman’s arm as she lay in a bed decorated with cast-aside weapons. This woman represents Germany, which viewed itself as a victim of French cruelty, for Clemenceau had strongly advocated for Germany to pay $33 billion in …show more content…
An image from Slump! A Study of Stricken Europe Today (Document H) depicts this economic crisis. It is captioned “Berlin’s Slump Centre, No less than 100,000 unemployed workers draw the dole each week at the Neukoelln unemployment office in Berlin”, and illustrates a wide street tightly packed with citizens waiting outside an unemployment office for their government benefit. German citizens were becoming more and more restless with their country’s situation, and this restlessness quickly developed into desperation as the Weimar government was unable to address the economic crisis properly. The Nazi Party, under Adolf Hitler, promised to overturn the Treaty of Versailles, resuscitate Germany’s economy, and restore national pride. These assurances appealed to many Germans who were unhappy with their current moderate government, who gave their support to the Nazi Party in hopes of relieving their country of its shameful state. This led to Adolf Hitler’s explosive rise in popularity and, eventually, his appointment as Chancellor in 1933; and his power only further grew after the President’s death in
How is the Treaty of Versailles a cause of World War II? The goal of the treaty of Versailles was to prevent war, but instead it caused another. World War I was fought through 1914-1918 and ended with more than 41 million casualties. World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars but, the Treaty of Versailles punished Germany which led to more conflicts.Therefore, the Treaty of Versailles was a cause of World War II because, it weakened the German economy, the terms of the treaty angered and
How did the Treaty of Versailles Help Cause World War II? There is no excuse for the horrible things Nazi Germany did during World War II. But one can get a better idea how that war started by learning about how World War I ended. The Treaty of Versailles was created by the winners of World War I, like France, Great Britain, and the United States, to make peace. So how did it help contribute to an even worse war less than twenty years later? It was mainly because it was too hard on Germany’s territory
“The Treaty of Versailles” was written to prevent future wars, it didn’t. “The Treaty of Versailles” is a document that cut down Germany as a country, it did this to prevent Germany for ever rising to power again. World War I, the supposed “The War to End All Wars” was a War between the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Germany) and the Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, Russia, and other smaller nations). The Allied Powers had defeated the Central Powers November 11, 1918