The Treaty of Versailles was composed as a peace treaty after World War I between the Allied forces and Germany . On June 28th 1919, the treaty had a few demands and objections on how to resolve the war. The treaty established specific territories for Germany, and made Germany pay reparations for the damage of the war. It also created a war guilt clause that blames Germany for everything that involves the war and demilitarized the country. Finally, the most important thing that the Treaty of Versailles did was that it created the League of Nations. The purpose of the League of Nations is to maintain the international peace of the treaty between each nation after World War I. However, the main reason why the treaty failed was because both the United States and the Soviet Union didn’t want to be a part of the League of Nations. Both countries didn’t think that it was necessary to join the league for they didn’t want to get involved with international affairs. Another reason why the treaty failed was because the countries in the league never did what they were supposed to do when it comes to protecting other countries from being attacks in a war like manner. Even though the one main point was to protect every nations from any warlike conflict, Italy and Japan tried to conquer and imperialize different, smaller nations to achieve power. Benito Mussolini, leader of the National Fascist Party, wanted to restore the Roman Empire by creating an Italian version of fascism . Using the ideologies of making Italy stronger as a nation, Mussolini wanted to reconquer Ethiopia and the Northern parts of Africa. The Ethiopian government was outraged that the Italian troops attacked their land, yet the League of Nations did nothing to prevent or protect the country from the attack. Similarly, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye and Japan wanted to establish the new order of the Greater East Asia by first attacking Manchuria . Even though Japan didn’t have a fascist or socialist concept of power, Japan had specific reasons of attacking China and Southeast Asia. One of the main reasons why Japan wanted to imperialize China and Southeast Asia was because Japan was running low on resources like rubber and tin and the United States and Great Britain was in control of those resources . Therefore, after the United States cut off trade with the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan felt that it was necessary to attack most of Southeast Asia in order to secure their assets and reconstruct the power of a greater Japan. When Japan attacked the city of Nanking and systematically destroyed China, the Treaty of Versailles failed to recognize …show more content…
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