World War 2 Persuasive Essay

There is no real way of knowing whether or not World War 2 was inevitable because it is in the past and there is no changing the past, but it is still possible to think about the “What If”. There is a possibility that it could have been avoided, tracing all the way back to the creation of the Treaty of Versaille on June 28th, 1919 (Walsh 80). This document was created by Britain, France, and the U.S. President. The treaty was a peace document for the end of World War I and put many restrictions and payments on Germany as a penalty for its actions in the war. These actions caused great travesties to the country, making its suffer, angering its people. The citizens became desperate for better times and elected a seemingly strong leader into power because he promised to better their lives. This …show more content…
The terms of the treaty included Germany accepting the blame for the war, paying reparations of 6600 million Euros, taking away Germany’s overseas empire, and restricting its armed forces by limiting their army to 100,000 men, banning conscription, ridding them of all armoured vehicles, submarines, and aircrafts, limiting their navy to six battle ships, and demilitarizing the Rhineland. Germany also lost 10 percent of their land, 12.5 percent of their population, and 16 percent of its coalfields and almost half of its iron and steel industry (Walsh 86-88). The Germans believed that they were treated unfairly and that they were not given the peace that they were promised by President Wilson. They instead claimed that the document showed that Germany’s position as a world power should be completely destroyed (Comments of the...). This treaty greatly devastated Germany and its economy as it could not afford the reparations, especially with their lose in population, coalfields, and iron and steel industry and angered its