Dbq Versailles Treaty

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By suppressing the German's rights through the Versailles treaty helped cause World War II. The Versailles treaty was made months before the end of World War 1, it was meant to end World War 1 peacefully. However the opposite happened, rather it was the seed for World War 2. During the making of The Versailles Treaty, Germany was given no voice, yet they were forced to pay for the damages of World War 1. This greatly infuriated many Germans as “most Germans saw it as an atrocious injustice, an evil thing which must be destroyed” (Document D). The Germans thought this way because the Versailles Treaty weakened Germany's economy since they couldn’t pay the reparations. The amount of reparations that the Treaty was forcing upon Germany was impossible

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