1. Treaty of Versailles
This treaty was signed in Versailles and it ended World War I. The primary purpose of the treaty was to punish Germany. France was the country that wanted to punish Germany so severely. There were five major points against Germany. One is territory that was taken away from Germany after the war. France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia benefited from this territory. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia were the new countries created by the Treaty of Versailles. Second was military Germany was forced to severely downsize their Army and Navy; they weren't allowed to have tanks, submarines or an Air Force. Third, Germany had to pay immense amounts ($33,000,000,000 in 1918 or about 600,000,000,000 today) of money to mainly France, and to Great Britain and the United States. They also lost most of their industry to different countries. The war guilt clause was part of the treaty that blamed Germany for beginning and continuing World War I. The last point was the creation of the League of Nations. "Big Three" of the treaty were United States, France and Great Britain. The United States Senate rejected the Treaty because they thought it was too harsh on Germany and they were not happy with the League of Nations. The United States never signed the Treaty and was ever a member of the League of Nations.
2. Peace attempts of the 1920's/30's
4. Italy's(Mussolini's) conquests of the 1930's
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