Introduction
Allied powers through their representations at the Versailles in Paris, France gathered after the end of the First World War on 28 th June of the year 1919 to sign the Treaty of Versailles. The principal purposes of the treaty were to limit the power of Germany and ensure both peace and security between the parties and the entire world as a whole. The treaty thus put immense pressure on the armed forces of Germany and limited its reconstruction and further demanded that the country make reparation to all damaged nations like the Great Britain and France ( Atkinson, 2008) . The Treaty also ensured the establishment of the league of Nations that was an intergovernmental organization that were established on January 20 th in the year 1920 with the aim of promoting both peace and stability in the world. However, the Treaty failed in an epic way and led to more wars in the world ( Atkinson, 2008) . The following paper explains why the treaty to achieve its objective of lasting peace and further sowed seeds of more global wars.
One important evidence that suggests the Treaty failed to achieve peace and stability was the Second World War which it was supposed to prevent. The Treaty was charged with the task of preventing another war in the world and yet it had failed to do so by allowing the World War Two to take place. In fact, the Second World War had even more adverse effects than the first one due to increased use of technology and advanced weapons. The reason for the above was the idea that the treaty lacked enforcement mechanism as well as the willingness of powers allied to it ( Atkinson, 2008) . Most of the terms that the Treaty demanded were never implemented. For instance, the demand that all nations must belong to the League of Nations, reduction of weapons by nations and the end of secret treaties were never respected. Moreover, the intention by France to have Germany divide it into smaller states never transpired making the treaty weak hence vulnerable to Germany (Graebner, 2011). Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles many times like in March of the year 1935, it rebuild its armed forces and reoccupied the demilitarized zone of Rhineland in the year 1936 (Huot, 2014). It went further to annex Australia which was a prohibition in the treaty. The World War 1 destroyed the Great Britain and France in a way that was overt to many and the two struggled to recover their economies and build their state defences hence paid little or no attention to stop Germany from rising ( Atkinson, 2008) .
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The Treaty failed to achieve its objectives because of the absence of the United States in acting up. The US was not the superpower nation then but stood as one of the very powerful states during the post-World War 1. The US did not ratify nor become a member of the League of Nations despite having signed the Treaty (Huot, 2014). The US did so because it felt the treaty would limit its sovereignty and its power to determine its affairs (Graebner, 2011). It felt the treaty as something that would not bring it any benefits and interests to other nations but would only make it loose troops and power as well as economy. Other nations also lacked the willingness to remain true to the enforcement of the treaty apart from the United States.
One key thing that suggested the failure of the treaty inevitable was its controversial features that received international opposition. Russia was left out of the peace conference to establish the treaty even though it had participated in the war with the allies for a period of three years and lost more persons than any of the other nations ( Atkinson, 2008) . The idea of the treaty ignoring Russia was a weakness on its part that led to its eventual failure since Russia being a neighbour to Germany would easily become an ally to it in order to prevent Germany from violating the treaty. It thus caused a major dissatisfaction to Russia and hence lost favour in the eyes of many nations that eventually led to its failure.
The treaty had very harsh statements and meanings that made it difficult for Germany to implement. The treaty wanted Germany to take full responsibility for the World War 1 and pay large amounts of money as reparation (Huot, 2014). However, there was need for a small agreement before the declaration and the small agreement before imposing it on the German nation (Graebner, 2011). The doing proved ineffective. The pressure on Germany birthed Adolf Hitler because it put a lot of pressure on them that lead to both depression and inflation. It was clear that the allied parties wanted Germany bankrupt which resulted in the humiliation of the country that led to it embracing nationalism (Graebner, 2011). Germans thus saw Hitler as their saviour because of the promise he made to bring back the country to the stage of the world and create jobs, infrastructure as well as wealth. The treaty brought forth new colonial rules in the new order of the world ( Atkinson, 2008) .
Conclusion
Most of the wars that transpired or rather took place after the treaty came due to its improper planning and setting out together with the lack of seriousness to have it enforced and implemented. The result was a rebellion from states that felt it intended to oppress and diminish them. As a result of such, most countries have adopted the idea of nationalism that puts their countries before anything else such as honour of treaties paving way for more wars.
References
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Graebner, N. A., & Bennett, E. M. (2011). The Versailles Treaty and its legacy: the failure of the Wilsonian vision. Cambridge University Press.
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