How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to World War II?

Answer 1

The blame for the first world war was laid at the feet of the Germans, which they resented.

Also, they had to pay huge amount in reparations, as well as losing key economic areas (like the Ruhr, which had lots of heavy industry).

Due to this, Germany was hit extremely hard by the worldwide economic depression of the thirties.
With high unemployment, people were extremely dissatisfied, and looked for solutions - which Hitler promised them, in the form of re-militarization, and revenge for the harsh peace of Versailles.

Answer 2

The Treaty of Versailles was so stupid that the US never ratified it. It quickly drove Germany into economic destitution where the situation existed that there were more questions than there were answers on how Germany could survive. Just as today with Bush having all of the answers on Iraq and thus winning in 2004, the immense number of questions in Germany caused the Germans to literally "escape from freedom" and turn the decision making over to Hitler

You need to read a book entitled ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM by Erich Fromm and you can get an idea on what I am telling you.

The treaty of Versailles started WWII, started the Bosnian war (and the surrounding countries that had made up Yugoslavia) and is the basic cause for why the middle east is in the condition it is in today - Versailles caused the Iraq War and the upcoming war with Iran.

You need also to look at the Balfour Declaration written during WWI and the Sikes-Picot Agreement written about the same time to understand that last statement in the above paragraph.

This is a simplistic answer. You should stop by a stamp collector's store and look at the stamps and money printed in Germany during th Weimar years after WWI to see what inflation did to Germany. Very often, they just printed over previously printed stamps, giving them a new cost. 10,000 DM might have bought you a candy bar.

You never know, when you study history, what the origin of anything is until y ou have looked at it solidly. If you can remember the problems between the Northern Irish (Belfast) and the Catholic part of Ireland that occupied most of the 20th century, you can find the cause coming from the reign of King James I of England in the early 17th century. The cause of WWI was not the murder of Archduke Ferdinand , you have to figure out what happened to bring about the murder.

Answer 3

The treaty of Versailles led to WWII because Germany was forced to hold full accountability of the WWI. It included making financial restitution to many of the countries that fought for the Allied Forces. It also included giving up land and territories.

It created the goal that the Allied Forces wished which was to impoverish Germany and to truly beat Germany down. Many opponents tried to reason that Germany should not be treated thusly and that we would regret it but the treaty went into effect anyway.

Then along came Adolf Hitler. He rose into power and initially shown as a beacon of hope to the poor and starving. He rebuilt the German Army and began taking back territories that were German initially and he would use that as an excuse. Europe let him because in truth it had been Germany's. And so forth so that he had a snow ball of power that allowed him to branch out.

Answer 4

Okay here is the real deal, the treaty of versailles had the clause that germany was why the first world war occured and germany would have to pay back the world in 890 Billion in Gold, which would mean germany would be paying this debt to the world until 1985! it was a major set back for the german economy.

When hitler came to power, he wanted to uplift the german economy, so they needed more land resources and more labor and therefore he took over poland and hungary, the world was quite as there wasnt much bloodshed until he became over ambitious and started taking over most of europe, assaulting by air, land and sea is when the allies was formed to protect their own countries and the world from global domination by one government. so we had world war II.

Answer 5

Only in that it provided a convenient scapegoat for right-wing madmen such as Hitler to use as a vote-gathering mechanism. The terms by themselves were not at all very crushing, and far more lenient than what Hindenburg and Ludendorff were going to lay on Europe had they won. Back to the question, the Treaty was an effective rallying point for people who thought Germany had been betrayed, and it also tore several German territories out of the Reich that provided easy flashpoints for Hitler's war.

Answer 6

The Treaty was not the only cause of WWII but it contributed by creating an atmosphere of resentment in Germany. The treaty imposed very onerous conditions on the Germans, forcing them to pay huge war reparations, thus causing severe economic problems, and forbidding them to maintain a modern miltary establishment, which insulted their national pride. The resentment was exploited by nationalist politicians, particularly Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, to justify both their internal repression and their aggresive behaviour towards their neighbours.

Answer 7

nicely it took a lot from germany what the chief in the process the Weimar era became into considered as week for accepting it so this lead germany to desire a greater chief so they have been given streseman i think of and then he became into considered as a foul chief so hitler have been given in touch who hated the conflict guilt that became into led to via the treaty of versaille - he needed potential and to make an empire like the roman empire with all that potential over the international - in basic terms thank you to do this became into via going to conflict to claime territory so he took the possibility and blamed the Jews whilst it went incorrect x

Answer 8

Germany was made to give up considerable amounts of land , stripped of all colonies, its military greatly reducedw ....and they had to accept full responsiblity for the war. They were still pissed off about the last one.

Answer 9

Germany was blamed and had to pay 3billion dollars so they got mad and then there was war!