What Was The Most Important Goals Of The First World War

The First World War (1914 -1918) was the most destructive event in the 20th century of world history, which covered the entire global and all nations in the world. “At the war's end, all European belligerents were economically depleted and suffered devastating losses in human life, which totaled nearly ten million.”1 Statistically, the numbers of people who died in those four years of war were 1,800,000 Germans, 1,700,000 Russians, 1,384,000 French 1,290,000 from Austria-Hungary and 743,000 British. 2 Those numbers of deaths shows how the Great War (WWI) was so contentious and fragile. In addition, the main results of these four years of war the children lost their parents, wives lost their husbands; young girls did not have the
“There was general agreement that Germany should be disarmed but considerable differences about how this should best be achieved.”4 An expert stated that, the Allies decided that the German military should be limited to no more than 100,000 ground troops and allowed no tanks or aircraft.5 The political leaders of the Allies wanted to make sure that Germany would never pose a military threat again because they blamed Germany as the main country responsible for First World War. In addition, disarming the German military was very important for France because she feared another war with Germany and considered the Treaty of Versailles as the only assurance for security. Consequently, in 1933, when Hitler rose to the power as a Chancellor of Germany he began to rebuild the German military forces. “Germany announced that they would rearm to levels equal to those France and Britain which increased the size of its army to 600,000 men.”6 They choose to ignore the Treaty of Versailles. As a result, the German military ignored the conditions of the Treaty and this created the conditions that led to the Second World War. Clearly, the Versailles Treaty concerned the disarmament of Germany, which was decided by the Allies, but after Hitler came to power this plan did not work, which resulted to the Second World
Lu, Catherine. Justice and Moral Regeneration: Lessons from the Treaty of Versailles. International Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 3 (autumn, 2002), pp. 11-15
2. Macmillan, Margret. Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. Random House Trade; Reprint edition (Sep 2003),pp. xxvi
3. The Treaty of Versailles. HistoryLearningSite.co.uk. 2014.Accessed on 9/12/2014. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm
4. Ibid.
5. Dickson, Keith. World War II for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (1 Oct 2001)pp. 24-64
6. Ibid.
7. Myers, Denys. Revisions of the Treaty of Versailles by Waldo E. Stephens. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Feb., 1940), pp. 146-147
8. Dickson, Keith. World War II for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (1 Oct 2001)pp.24.25
9. Ibid.
10. The Treaty of Versailles. History Learning Site. Accessed on 9/12/2014. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm 11. Dickson, Keith. World War II for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (1 Oct 2001)pp.50-52
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