Effects Of The Treaty Of Versailles Dbq Essay

Due to the Treaty of Versailles’ instability, many countries were negatively impacted in various ways. These countries include Germany, France, Italy, and many recently established countries in Europe. It impacted them by ruining countries’ pride, economic situation, and power.

In document 1 it mentions how Germany’s armed forces could not contain any military or naval air forces, stripping away their power as a country, which makes them more vulnerable to attacks by other countries. It also mentions how Germany had to accept the blame for starting WW1, most likely draining the countries pride as we can assume Hitler is alluding to in the Mein Kampf (document 3), which causes much of the built up anger and resent towards other European countries due to the way they targeted Germany in the Treaty of Versailles. Lastly, document 1 also mentions the very high amount of money Germany has to pay in reparations to other European countries because they “started” the war, which left Germany in an economic crumble, only further angering them.

This proves the instability of the Treaty of Versailles. It does that by showing the amount the Treaty of Versailles was able to change in such a short amount of time, but also pays homage to the fact later in document 6 that the Treaty of Versailles paid close to no attention to the economic hardships these newfound countries would go through. The Treaty of Versailles offering no help to these new countries show that it was not stable and there were holes in it that needed to be refined to prevent poverty and anger across these new