great success. The currency was stabilized and inflation was brought under control. Large loans were raised in the United States and this investment resulted in a fall in unemployment. Germany was also able to meet her obligations under the Treaty of Versailles for the next five years. However‚ the Wall Street Crash created new problems for the German economy. In 1929 the Allied Reparations Committee asked an American banker‚ Owen D. Young‚ to investigate the situation. Young’s report suggested
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cause for the war was tensions over territory in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary competed with Serbia and Russia for territory and influence in the region and they pulled the rest of the Great Powers into the conflict through their various alliances and treaties. According to Henig (2002)‚ another cause of the first World War was the Franco-Prussian War. The war between France and Prussia (the future German Empire) that lasted from 1870 to 1871 ended with a humiliating defeat for France. It lost the regions
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League was compromised. Wilson then went to Europe to discuss the Treaty of Versailles. Representatives from Italy‚ France‚ and Britain didn ’t want to work with the nations they had defeated. They wanted to hurt them. After much fighting and negotiating‚ Wilson managed to convince them that a league of nations was not only feasible‚ it was necessary. The Senate supported most of the Treaty of Versailles but not the League. They thought it would make the U.S.A. too involved
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opponents in Congress’ fault because it was their decision to not ratify the Treaty of Versailles. They also didn’t want to send soldiers that they could lose for other countries. They didn’t want other world powers trying to rule their country. Congress thought joining the League of Nations would threaten their independence. Wilson wanted to join the League of Nations‚ but due to Congress’ dislike of the Treaty of Versailles‚ America did not join. 3) How did some events of the 1920’s reflect national
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World War II was not a continuation of World War I‚ although they do have some connections. The Wars themselves are not a continuation‚ because of World War I (and some other reasons) World War II did occur. But it is not the same war‚ they were not fighting for the same reasons. After World War I‚ Germany had been badly beaten and they felt like they were being punished because of their loss of the first war. That anger helped to fuel the Nazi partnering‚ and the election of Adolf Hitler. That
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Why did WWII begin? I believe that World War II began because Germany pushed their limits. Hitler used the abrupt limits of the Versailles Treaty to take over land where there were German speakers. By September of 1938‚ Germany had already successfully acquired Czechoslovakia and Austria. These two countries weren’t enough for them. I think they were absolutely crazy for trying to push their luck any further. They had achieved something that was already so difficult. Doubling your money is always
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issue of poverty to some measure. The League of Nations started with 42 members of whom two were the main leaders and the rest just followers of the set of rules‚ because they either believed in peace or they were to be rewarded as part of the treaty of Versailles. One of the major set backs was the interest‚ or the lack thereof‚ in how the league was to succeed with Britain and France as ring leaders. After WW1‚ some countries would not and did not agree with the decisions made by the allies and held
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When a child breaks a rule and they are punished to keep them from doing it again. With Hitler‚ he kept breaking treaties and known one would do anything‚ so he kept pushing his limits. Eventually someone decides to do something and it was too late and Hitler had rebuilt German. A main example to this statement is when Hitler declares that Germany will not follow the treaty of Versailles. He then begins to build up Germany’s army again with no one trying to stop him.(p.860). Hitler continued these
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policy…”. Although war was arguably never part of any nation’s legitimate “national policy”‚ it was frightening to America that the potential of war was always on the table. Negative feelings following the end of war did not simply go away when peace treaties were signed. Out of the devastations of the Great War came a renewed desire for a period of isolation and peace. Regardless of how unrealistic it may have been‚ people were so traumatically scarred from the horrors for the First World War that they
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humiliating defeat in the First World War‚ and hatred from the new state came from both the far left‚ who wanted a revolution to create a communist state‚ and the far right‚ who wanted to restore imperial Germany‚ stop all reparations and reverse the treaty of Versailles. I agree that the extreme right was the greatest threat to stability. On the one hand‚ there was a lot of political violence from the extreme right‚ a significant one being the kapp luttwitz putsch in 1920‚ in which nationalists marched into
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