The Impact Of The Treaty Of Versailles On World War 2

The Treaty of Versailles is by far one of the largest influences to the start of World War 2. The treaty is responsible for putting Germany in an undesirable position both politically and economically. The affects the treaty had was detrimental to Germany and did nothing but debilitate it. The Treaty of Versailles gave away Germany 's land, hurting its economy. The treaty also restricted Germany 's military, making it vulnerable to others. The treaty had also failed to address the already present financial crisis because of the previous war. That being said, there was no room for Germany to financially recover from World War 1. The main reason for the start of world war 2 was because of hitler. In basic terms hitler blamed Jews for all the …show more content…
If anything the treaty made it so that Germany would fall even deeper into the burden, making it almost impossible for them to recover financially. For one, France demanded a repay from Germany for the damage they caused because of world war 1. France demanded that Germany repay them for the losses they had in life, money, and resources. Ultimately Germany couldn 't repay France for what they cost them, so instead of repaying them with money they repaid them land. Germany gave up Saar, this was a significant change due to the fact that it contained 16% of Germany 's coal fields as mentioned earlier. Giving up Saar to France not only hurt Germany 's economy, but it also solidified its undesirable financial position. Going back to France demanding for repayment, Germany felt it was necessary to do just that. But there was not a lot of money circulating Germany, therefore Germany decided to print out more money. A mistake in which all German citizens had to pay the price for. The printing of extra money lead to something no country would be pleased to endure, it lead to hyperinflation. The cause of hyperinflation is the act of printing extra money, it 's effect is that it increases products and goods in a certain country dramatically, the more of something there is the less valuable it is. That is exactly what happened to Germany, not only did it make the price of goods more expensive but it also made the money they were printing out less valuable. Which then meant they not only made their own economy worse but they then lead other countries to demand an even bigger payment. This then lead to strikes within Germany, making the German mark even less valuable. Germany was in an atrocious position, which was the cause of the strikes. Strikes mainly consisted of workers due to the fact that they felt they were not