Question

Write an account of Versailles Treaty and criticism of the peace settlement.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty's so-called “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. This meant a loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers.

Answer 2

At the Palace of Versailles, outskirts of Paris, France the treaty was signed on dated 28th of June, 1919.

Explanation-

• The treaty had conditions for peace between the Allies and Germany. Powers like Austria-Hungary signed a whole different treaty with the Allies.
• This treaty ended in five years officially yet was the most controversial treaties of those days.
• Germany was forced to take all the blame and faced forced reduction of military, compensation to be paid for the loss suffered by the countries and loss of various territories for causing World War- I.

Criticism:

• John Maynard Keynes criticized this treaty through his book ‘Economic Consequences of Peace’, he wrote that this treaty was to blame Germany and that the treaty was a Carthaginian peace.
• President Woodrow Wilson’s fourteen points of peace were criticised.
• Germany’s economic condition very bad and the world saw the rise of Adolf Hitler, a dictator of Nazis in Germany and restored the honour of Germany by the help of remilitarization.