How Did The Article 231 Cause Ww1
Centennial College
The Making of the Modern World
Corse Instructor: Dr. Jacob Meunier
Group Number: 03
Name: Ng Sze Wing
Date: 23th March 2015
Topic 2
By studying and discuss from the long- and short-term causes of the war, to understand how accurate was Article 231 on placing full blame for World War I on Germans.
In June 1919, the treaty signed in this day had ended the war between defeated Germany and the victorious Allies. A one and a half year negotiation on armistice settled till the Treaty of Versailles produced, which becomes the most controversial treaty in the twentieth century. The most contentious part of this peace accord was the Article 231 had imputed full blame for World War I on Germany. However, if we take a careful analysis on the long and the short-term causes, it leads to a just conclusion that the Article 231 was injustice, biased, and inaccurate, …show more content…
As the agreement signed when alliance formed, it also resulted in the outbreak of WWI. That is, despite the alliance or entente was founded, but the ally itself were also worried their alliance would collapse. In view of it, to avert betrayal and isolation from ally, they had to signed the secret military treaty to compel their ally support them. When WWI begun, the ally pattern reveals that the military treaty was correlated to the outbreak of WWI in a great extent. Which, when assassination at Sarajevo happened (819), Austro-Hungarian declared war with Serbia who supported by Russia, France was ally with Russia, on the other side, German support Austria because of the agreement, and thus, it indirectly leads to German battle with France as they were enemies. Ultimately, it also reveals that Article 231 was inaccurate as Germany was not the country initiate the begin of WWI; it was injustice to put all blame on German to accept the war guilty
The Making of the Modern World
Corse Instructor: Dr. Jacob Meunier
Group Number: 03
Name: Ng Sze Wing
Date: 23th March 2015
Topic 2
By studying and discuss from the long- and short-term causes of the war, to understand how accurate was Article 231 on placing full blame for World War I on Germans.
In June 1919, the treaty signed in this day had ended the war between defeated Germany and the victorious Allies. A one and a half year negotiation on armistice settled till the Treaty of Versailles produced, which becomes the most controversial treaty in the twentieth century. The most contentious part of this peace accord was the Article 231 had imputed full blame for World War I on Germany. However, if we take a careful analysis on the long and the short-term causes, it leads to a just conclusion that the Article 231 was injustice, biased, and inaccurate, …show more content…
As the agreement signed when alliance formed, it also resulted in the outbreak of WWI. That is, despite the alliance or entente was founded, but the ally itself were also worried their alliance would collapse. In view of it, to avert betrayal and isolation from ally, they had to signed the secret military treaty to compel their ally support them. When WWI begun, the ally pattern reveals that the military treaty was correlated to the outbreak of WWI in a great extent. Which, when assassination at Sarajevo happened (819), Austro-Hungarian declared war with Serbia who supported by Russia, France was ally with Russia, on the other side, German support Austria because of the agreement, and thus, it indirectly leads to German battle with France as they were enemies. Ultimately, it also reveals that Article 231 was inaccurate as Germany was not the country initiate the begin of WWI; it was injustice to put all blame on German to accept the war guilty