How the Treaty of Versailles Effected Germany
Wen World War I ended on November 11, 1918, peace
talks went on for months due to the Allied leaders wanting to
punish the enemy and "dividing the spoils of war." A formal
agreement to end the war was made and called the Treaty of
Versailles. The issue that took the most time were the
territorial issues because the empires of Russia,
Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman, and Germany had collapsed.
These fallen empires had to be divided up and America's
President Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau of
France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and David Lloyd George
of Great Britain, were the main deciders of this deal. During
1918, Russia was knocked out of the war due to military
defeats and the Bolshevik Revolution. Even though Russia
had not been part of the Central Powers, Germany seized
much of western Russia. After many months of arguing, the
four men had made western Russia into the nations of
Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia,......
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