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    David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy, who is often excluded, met in France for the Paris Peace Conference to discuss a post-war treaty.[10] Although Russia had been a member of the Allied Nations during the Great War, they were excluded from the conference due to the Soviet Revolution, which scared the strong anti-communist US.Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points took center stage at the conference.[5] They outlined a peace that accomplished the

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    It is 1919 and the involved nations are trying formulate an armistice to maintain peace after World War I. Their plans are present in the Treaty of Versailles. The terms are supposed keep the world in a state of peace and to give Germany its punishment for starting and losing the war. However, the effectiveness of these terms is questionable. The Treaty of Versailles created the League of Nations(LON) and imposed the reparations on Germany, but they were ineffective in maintaining peace after the

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    The Versailles Treaty was signed to provide lasting international peace between European nations (Perry, 2013). The treaty granted international peace in the following ways. Germany was required to surrender sovereignty over all the former colonies. The colonies were put under League of Nations mandate under the control of the Allied states. The Treaty brought military restrictions thereby facilitating international disarmament. The treaty encouraged the German army demobilization limiting the

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    causes is because of the league of nations.The League of Nations was created to maintain peace so that there would never again be a great war. But actually it was the opposite, it was a cause of WW2.The League was to be sure that war would never break out.Since Hitler began to break the Treaty of Versailles, the league could do nothing to stop Hitler’s movement. As a result, the League failed and a second world war was the only choice to prevent him.The League of Nations seemed to be powerful but

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    World War 1 not only changed the landscape of Europe, but it also drastically impacted the future of the world and subsequently, international relations. The devastating loss as a result of the Great War urged world leaders to implement peace settlements and treaties to ensure that the World would not bear witness to such atrocities again. The Allied powers of World War 1 were usually at the forefront of these settlements- not only were they focused on the rebuilding of Europe and its future, but

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    First World War, the League of Nations was established, the predecessor of what would later become the United Nations. The League was established in large part to hopefully avoid another world war as devastating as the Great War, as it was called. The League of Nations ultimately disbanded, giving way to the United Nations, but peacekeeping operations increased and evolved to encompass broader and more complex conflicts, including civil wars, which were ignored by the League out of respect for a

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    throughout the 1930 's, they realized that they were wrong. Dictators came into power in countries that were displeased with the results of World War I. Germany, Italy and Japan wanted power, so they took aggressive action that not even The League of Nations could stop. British Prime Minister Chamberlain thought that the best way to deal with Hitler was by following a policy of appeasement, but not everybody agreed with him. That is why the causes of World War II vary depending on different perspectives

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    After the fighting of World War I stopped, the nations of the Allied powers gathered in Paris, France to negotiate and write the treaty that would end the war. What would become known as the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and most of the Allied powers. However, the United States did not do so. Both liberal and conservative opposition as well as the behavior and actions of President Wilson significantly contributed to the defeat of the Treaty of Versailles in the United States. Liberal

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    guarantee permanent peace and to make the world a safer place for democracy. The countries of the world would neutralize themselves, abandon their colonial claims, remove tariff barriers, and take part in open and true diplomacy. Lastly, a league of peaceable nations would guarantee that the fair requirements of this Treaty would be enforced by pledging themselves to defend one another from outside attacks by any aggressive country. Wilson’s fourteen points included freedom of the seas, free trade, and

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    “The outbreak of another war was unavoidable after the Treaty of Versailles” Discuss. HY116 week 5 essay On the 28th of June 1919, after six months of negotiations the Treaty of Versailles formally ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers. The Paris Peace Conferences set about to establish at durable peace and insure that World War One would be the war to end all wars. Nevertheless, thirty years later Adolf Hitler invaded Poland and conflict erupted once again. Thus the Treaty

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