How Did Hitler Build The Treaty Of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was established at the Paris Peace conference with the intent to defer Germany from initiating a second world war. The treaty included a war guilt clause which Germany felt was very harsh. This war guilt contained regulations to keep them weak and ensure they couldn't ignite another war again. This included reparations with an expenditure of 6.6B euros, military limitations where they were restricted to having 100,000 soldiers, 6 battleships and no air force or submarines. They also experienced a loss of colonies such as Eupen, Malmedy, The Saar, Northern Schleswig, Rhineland, Danzig, West Prussia, parts of Silesia, Hultschin and Memel. Along with the loss of 13% of their European territory and one tenth of its population. Germany was forced to agree to these terms despite not wanting to. They felt as though they had no choice and peace was being dictated. Consequently Germany felt weak and humiliated, resulting in them resenting the Treaty of Versailles and the creators of it.

The growth of fascist aggression and the failure of the League of Nations to stop it was another leading cause of the outbreak of World War 2. In 1931 Japan …show more content…
Hitler steadily began to rearm Germany, by doing this he publicly broke the Treaty of Versailles. When other countries simply ignored this, he gained enough confidence to take back the Saar, invade the Rhineland and believed he was unstoppable. “The 48 hours after the march in the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking of my life.” The other Governments weren’t doing anything as part of an impromptu strategy called Appeasement. This was when the other governments gave Hitler exactly what he wanted in the hopes he wouldn’t want anything else. They wrongfully trusted Hitler. Appeasement only fueled Hitler and his plans to dominate the other