Treaty of Versailles
At the end of World War I, a numbe
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At the end of World War I, a number of major concerns were raised about Germany and what should be done to prevent her from rising as a military power once more. Woodrow Wilson proposed his Fourteen Points for the purposes of negotiation at the peace conference. An analysis of what emerged in the form of the Treaty of Versailles shows that in many ways, the Germans emerged from the war with much of her army leadership intact and with very little democratic change in the governmental system. Considering how much importance Woodrow Wilson placed on the peace conference and on his hopes for certain peace-keeping mechanisms, the question can be raised as to whether Wilson actually sold out his ideals at the Paris Peace Conference or whether some other reason can be given for the failure of the allied forces to impose all that Wilson stated he wanted on the defeated Germans. The First World War, known then as the Great War, was also supposed to be the war to end all wars. Clearly, it did not achieve this lofty goal. The defeat of Germany led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and that document was intended to lead to a new and more peaceful world. To achieve this, though, the victors believed they had to bind Germany so that the German military would never again be able to threaten the rest of Europe. There was more than a slight element of punishment in the provisions placed upon Germany by the victors, though the victors did not fully agree among themselves a
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able to become overwhelmingly successful in personal negotiation.
Watt notes that both Robert Lansing and Colonel House urged Wilson not to attend the conference, or at least not to take peroneal part in the discussions. Wilson could control the negotiations without being part of them, and Lansing and House believed he would indeed be stronger for this approach. Wilson refused to listen.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
Woodrow Wilson offers a good account of the Peace Conference, and he also sees the outcome of the conference as an "immense tragedy which befell Woodrow Wilson and the whole world." Wilson arrived at the conference to find delegations from 27 nations of the Allied and Associated Powers. Delegations from 7 other nations had also arrived, nations not yet "recognized" or standing as neutral in the war but now come to watch, concerned about their future. The delegations from the 5 enemy countries were also in attendance. The Communist were watching from their stronghold in Moscow, creating trouble for all the new nations. In addition, each of the 41 delegations of these nations had organized propaganda agencies and employed press agents, and to these were added representations from social, scientific, and econom
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