e or not--considering the havoc they had wrought--the feeling that the treaty stirred up among the German people was a very powerful impetus in the movement of the nation toward the second conflict. In some way almost every single outcome of the war eventually contributed to the second war.
Outside of the terms imposed on Germany there were relatively few major effects of World War I. The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire was certainly an important event. But the empire had reached a point at which its continuation was unlikely in any event. The terms of the private settlement made between Lenin and the Germans contributed to the relative stability of the Bolshevik government which was, in the long run, a good thing for the Allied effort in World War II, since an easily-conquered Russia could have been disastrous. If the vast resources of Russia had been under Hitler's control from the beginning the war might have gone very differently. The first war did, however, weaken Russia's position to the extent of being deprived of many of the s
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