treaty of versailles:
Financial:
$33 billion in debt to other countries
germany was put into a huge recession after this
lost a lot of natural resources off of the land that they had to give back
germany lost a ton of things
germany had to take responsibility of ww1
the league of nations was set up to keep world peace
league of nations:
world wide peace keeping organization
wanted to stop wars
the united states never joined
the senate thought that we would get pulled into wars
league of nations was the biggest reason that we never signed the treaty of versailles
it only had the power to have economic sanctions
now have the united nations
canada:
treaty of versailles didn't really impact canada
germany had to give them a little bit of money
was still apart of great britain
they were becoming there own country so they didn't really have a set gov't
moving toward indepedence
william keen- prime minister
gave canada its own voice
lowered trade tariffs
fought in a lot of bigger battles
ww2 impacted them by industrializing the country
1/7 of their population fought in the war
sent a lot of troops
bombed german cities
fourth largest army
australia:
joined the war in 1939
were just like canada; they were with poland
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