Treaty of Waitangi

World War I was a gruesome event in history which saw over eight million soldiers lose their lives whilst defending their nations freedom, until Germany agreed to armistice on the 11th of November 1918. The peace agreement, known as the Treaty of Versailles, was signed on the 28th of June 1919 exactly five years after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, officially ending the conflict between Germany and the Allied Powers. The treaty’s content was predominantly negotiated by the Big…

Wilfred Owen exuberantly describes an attack in which he helplessly watches poison gas devour his comrade in the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est. First introduced in 1915 by the Germans, gas attacks caused an estimated 1,180,913 casualties in World War I alone ("Weapons of War - Poison Gas”). The implementation of this deadly weapon, along with multiple other strategic attacks, is the reason why people knew the Great War as “the war to end all wars”. This catchphrase, commonly attributed to then U.S.…

and France went into the Versailles Conference with vengeance. On the other hand, Britain and France had a right to be angry since Germany was the source of their economic downfall and hardship during the war. The final Treaty in June 28th, 1919 had no German representative. The Treaty was ruthless, requiring Germany to take responsibility for the war and pay $33 billion dollars in reparations to France to rebuild their economy (Boden). The Versailles Conference did not consider that Germany’s…

Unfortunately, not only was the government’s infrastructures becoming weak, but it also began losing its discipline. In an attempt to bring prosperity back to Germany, the government asked the United States for several juicy loans. With such money, almost an instant boom was created. Culture was flourishing back, construction, music, art, every aspect of the German culture was expanding at a rapid pace.(source G1) Unfortunately, people began rioting and became uncivilized. Thanks to the general…

What caused the Holocaust? Germany after the Treaty of Versailles was in a weakened and vulnerable state, where they were progressively, but easily manipulated by propaganda to believe their restoration and survival depended on a pure German line, and any impurities present needed to be eradiated for they compromised the future of Germany. The state of mind that allowed for such actions to take place was in part due to the Treat of Versailles that aggravated the German nation. The World…

The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty that was discussed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The treaty discussed the punishment for those who were held responsible for World War I. While the Ottoman Empire was completely destroyed, other countries, including newly formed Austria and Hungary were punished. The country that was most severely punished, however, was Germany. There was an extraordinary amount of punishment that was outlined in the treaty such as a diminished army, large…

and economy, Germany was still burdened with the Treaty of Versailles, holding the country accountable financially and morally for what happened during World War I. Though persons of Germany in post-World War I times would blame the effects of the Treaty of Versailles for the start of World War II, it is quite evident…

In this essay, it will be shown how Canada joined World War One as a colony and dispersed as an independent nation. The next couple paragraphs will examine the battle of Vimy Ridge, women in the Great War, and the Treaty of Versailles benefitted Canada’s transition from a colony to a nation. This essay will be referencing the magnificent work of Garfield Newman’s, Canada: A Nation Unfolding, and Chris Trueman’s website, http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/index.htm. Vimy Ridge was located…

Democratic Republic, particularly the Ebert government, at fault for the harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles and aimed…

autocratic powers of the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy). WWII could have been prevented by treating Germany and the German people, Italy, and Japan with much greater respect after WWI, especially during the Paris Peace Conference and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The rise of Nazi Germany was a ticking…