What if the Treaty of Versailles was less harsh on the Germans. Would there be a WW2? Would there be a Cold War? Would we see a European Federation, today?
What if the Treaty of Versailles was less harsh on the Germans. Would there be a WW2? Would there be a Cold War? Would we see a European Federation, today?
What if the Treaty of Versailles was less harsh on the Germans. Would there be a WW2? Would there be a Cold War? Would we see a European Federation, today?
<_<In most instances the seeds of one war is in the peace that ended the previous. The seeds for the Great War were sown in the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt that ended the Franco-Prussian War. Aside from the War Guilt clause I don't see the treaty particularly harsh for the war that had occured.
AFAIK, the only major Entente power that wasn't out for German blood was the US. The French, particularly, wanted to neuter Germany's power forever.
Danzig was given to Poland(when it would've been just as possible to give them Lithuania for a port..).
Belgium would have gotten less land, at least...The British didn't want as harsh a settlement as the French, by a long way.
How about self-determinism is applied to German lands as well?
What if the Treaty of Versailles was less harsh on the Germans. Would there be a WW2? Would there be a Cold War? Would we see a European Federation, today?
Germany had to lose all of her colonies.
Nothing strange in that. That was a typical British tactic during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Hmm, colonies were seized during wars for commercial reasons and because they were there and could be used as bargaining tools. The British did not always keep the colonies. The German colonies were of extremely limited economic value.
Wasn't South Africa pretty keen on holding onto former German South-West Africa? Pretty sure I read that somewhere, not sure what the motive was exactly.
Close to South Africa and large White population or more precisely large Protestant White population who spoke a language closely related to Afrikaans
What if the Treaty of Versailles was less harsh on the Germans.
Would there be a WW2?
Would there be a Cold War?
Would we see a European Federation, today?
They were also given the Danzig Corridor. And the self-determination issue was hardly a key part of the ToV. If that were the case Belgium would've recieved nothing at all, Silesia wouldn't of had been (slightly) partitioned between Poland & Czechoslovakia. And IIIRC, I doubt the Alsace would've been returned to France.It was made a free city-state, Lithuania didn't want to be part of Poland, it would clash with self-determination issue, plus the main external transport and trade infrastructure of Polish state didn't go along that way.The territorial issues weren't that harsh, unless viewed from position of German nationalism. Gdańsk perhaps could have been re-attached to Germany after transition period, allowing Poles to built alternative port, and likely would have if not for aggressive policy of Hitler.
They were also given the Danzig Corridor. And the self-determination issue was hardly a key part of the ToV. If that were the case Belgium would've recieved nothing at all, Silesia wouldn't of had been (slightly) partitioned between Poland & Czechoslovakia. And IIIRC, I doubt the Alsace would've been returned to France.
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Germany had to lose all of her colonies. Parts of Silesia. The Saar was under French administration. They had to give land to Belgium. Danzig was given to Poland(when it would've been just as possible to give them Lithuania for a port..). Germany also had to pay massive war debts for producing the Maxim Machinegun..
Yeah...