Question

Describe the part played by the trealy of Versailles Hitler ideology of forcism

Answer 1

In 1919, a defeated Germany was presented with peace terms by the victorious powers of World War I. Germany wasn’t invited to negotiate and was presented with a stark choice: sign or be invaded. Perhaps inevitably given the previous years of mass bloodshed German leaders had caused, the result was the Treaty of Versailles. But from the start, the terms of Versailles caused anger, hate, and revulsion in parts of German society. Versailles was called a diktat, a dictated peace. The German Empire from 1914 was split up, the military carved to the bone, and huge reparations demanded.
The treaty caused turmoil in the new, highly troubled Weimar Republic, but, although Weimar survived into the 1930s, it can be argued that key areas connected with the Treaty contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Versailles was criticized at the time by voices among the victors, including economists such as John Maynard Keynes. Some claimed Versailles simply delayed a resumption of war for a few decades, and when Hitler rose to power in the 1930s and started a second world war, these predictions seemed prescient. In the years after the war, many commentators pointed to the treaty as if not making war inevitable, at least being the key enabling factor. Others praised Versailles and said the connection between the treaty and the Nazis was minor.