When the Treaty terms were announced in June 1919, there was a mixed reaction. The general opinion in Britain was that the terms were fair and should probably have been more serious. British newspapers suggested that Germany would no longer threaten world peace. Any complaints by the Germans were dismissed. When Prime Minister David Lloyd George returned from Paris in June 1919, he received a hero's welcome. The king came out to meet him at the railway station, which was completely unheard of in British history.
How did France react?
Reactions in France were mixed. There were celebrations that the war was definitely over. People approved of the amends that Germany had to pay. They also liked the fact that Germany's borders with France (the Rhineland) would be remove all military forces. This meant Germany could not station any troops in this area. They appreciated that the coalmines of the Saar would bring success to France instead of Germany. They also believed that the League of Nations would be a
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The USA reactions to the Treaty were negative. Many Americans felt that the Treaty was unfair on Germany. More importantly, they felt that Britain and France were making themselves rich at Germany's expense and that the USA should not be helping them to do this. This was not really the case, but many Americans believed it.
This was partly because American politics were deeply divided at the time. President Wilson led the Democratic Party. However, his rivals in the Republican Party dominated the US Congress. They used the Treaty as an opportunity to attack Wilson. Wilson has to take some of the blame for this as he made little effort to tell the Republicans about the Treaty. Americans were also worried about Wilson's plan for a League of Nations. They were concerned that belonging to the League would drag the USA into international debate that were not their concern. In the end, the Congress rejected the Treaty of Versailles and the League of
Just before the conclusion of the devastating World War I, which had taken more lives than any other war in history, President Woodrow Wilson and the delegates of the Senate in 1919 had conglomerated to come to a decision as to the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, which had primarily been proposed to set forth conditions which would ultimately put an end to the war. Specifically, according to Wilson’s propositions at the Covenant, the Treaty would make peace with the United States’ adversaries by …; however, its major caveat was that it would divert all blame and responsibility for the war to Germany. This clause would cause several disputes between Wilson and his fellow Senators, which had eventually led to the vetoing of the Treaty
If this attempt is unsuccessful, we propose an alliance with Mexico.” this information is found in document H. the reason the US would have to join the war for this is because they felt personally attacked by the germans saying to mexico that is the united states decided to join the war and no longer be neutral that they would attack the areas closest to them distracting the military which in turn Mexico would regain all of the land they lost in the spanish American war. To show that the United States would not be disrespected, they joined the war after a threat was introduced. Earlier in the beginning of the war before the Us became an Allied power President Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter to the congressmen saying that being neutral was the best option due to America being a “place drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war “. He also realized that if we went to war and had to choose a side to defend it would cause the United states to fall apart due to the citizens having different opinions on the war, and what should be done; this information was found on the document
The Treaty of Versailles had a significant negative impact on German nationalism. Article 231 of the treaty caused the German people to be harshly shamed for their involvement in the war, as they were required to accept full responsibility. There was a lot of resentment and anger as a result, which in turn encouraged the rise of German nationalism. The treaty was seen by many Germans as an insult and a betrayal of their sense of national honor. This humiliation led to resentment of foreign powers and a rise in German nationalism, ultimately culminating in the emergence of the Nazi
This treaty basically states that if France were to be attacked and needed help, America would have to help France out because we the only reason we gained independence from Great Britain was due to the fact that France helped us. At this point in time, France has declared war on, Great Britain, Austria, Holland, Prussia, and Spain. There are clearly two sides to the debate.
The United States did not want to take part in World War I, the U.S simply wanted to stay neutral but then the war started to interfere with the U.S financial state. President Wilson did not want to declare war right away, instead he stated that the United States needed to prepare their army to ensure them victory. With both sides in the war running low on supplies Wilson believed it was better to be safe than sorry since the Unites States military lacked supplies, support and unity from Americans. Why is that? The U.S military around the time of the 1900’s was considered to be one of the smallest and weakest in the world because of this there was no chance against a German army of 4.5 million men.
People didn’t want to go through another war for a multitude of reasons like, war was expensive and the US was still recovering from the panic of 1907, the US also thought that it wasn’t their problem, Europe got themselves into this mess they can figure it out
Wilson viewed America as a nation of peace and he wanted to preserve this view. However, as time went on, the little things the U.S did while claiming its neutrality started to matter. Germans retaliated to the U.S trade with the Allies. One thing led to another and the U.S joined the war under the Allies’
On top of that, the United States’ southern neighbors in Mexico were in the middle of a revolt. Although Wilson pleased many Americans that feared war in Europe by managing to keep the United States out of World War I, others were highly critical of Wilson’s decisions, portraying him as
On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending one of the bloodiest wars in modern history. World War I caused the deaths of nearly ten million soldiers and up to thirteen million non-combatants. Catastrophic property and industry losses occurred, especially in France, Belgium, Poland, and Serbia.
The Germans at this point had shown great movement towards a more aggressive standpoint in the war and this directly affected the United States lost people on boats like the Lusitania and the Laconia. Many people worried that “other laconias were certain to sink.” (Doc 7) This instilled fear into the nations and many people felt that the only way to solve this would be to get involved and take a more aggressive standpoint on the matter. The Sussex pledge was announced in place to restrict this warfare by German submarines but after violating the policy, even more, people supported a more aggressive, including President Woodrow Wilson.
The decision made by America to not ratify the Treaty of Versailles was the right decision. At the time America was seen, and still is, a great world power. America saw the treaty was full of flaws and did the right thing in choosing not to ratify it. During this time America had built itself up to be the world’s strongest military. One of the points in the treaty was the League of Nations.
The united states were in a time of moral instubility, they had a decision to make and this decision would help or destroy everything the United states worked for over the years. The United States from 1914 to 1941 were a neutral party in the war brewing over seas, but the political, social, and economical aspects gave way to involvement with the Allied forces in WWll. The United States was very contraversal on whether it should join the wr or stay neutral, the political side of the U.S. had changed over time. At first as shown in document one, the U.S had to weigh its options on whether to join or not.
The congress thought it would cause an unnecessary war between the American
713-714 Because the Senate was majority ruled by Republicans, they were not easily persuaded to vote for the Treaty with Wilson’s terms. A group of Republicans in the Senate called the Reservationist agreed to the Treaty if multiple terms had been modified, including removing the United States from the League of Nations. They would not approve the League of Nations in its existing imperfect
There were protests in the German Parliament and out on the streets. There was a revolution (the Kapp Putsch) against the treaty in Berlin in 1920. The majority of the