Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles consisted of many agreements made between the Allies who won the great war and the losers, ie. Germany, Austria Hungary, etc. Anyway, the treaties put forth two main ideas, complete peace agreements and completely redrawing the map. The idea of complete peace, supported by President Woodrow Wilson, consisted of the creation of the League of Nations. The league of Nations was an organization that was in charge of keeping international peace in check. It was believed that this League could make all the troubles between countries go away. As we can see from the fact that another world war happened just a mere 30(ish) years later, this league worked really well. The second of the two main points of the Treaty was the idea that the Allies got to redraw the map of Eastern Europe. By doing this, the Allies made sure that all of the former powers were split into smaller countries, and all of the people that supported them got their own new country. This caused the problem of minorities, as outlined in our reading, because different types of people were so spread out after the war. This was a problem because each of the new countries supported a different ethnic or cultural group, making the people who had moved during the war minorities.

And just to add, life in Germany was pretty awful after the war. They had to pay for everything. That's what you get for starting a war, Germany, no more money in the state for a really long time. Hello, internal problems. Here's a hint: don't start another war...