Tuesday, June 28, 2022

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

 

On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, and World War I was officially over.  The end came five years after Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, which started it all.  Fighting had stopped on November 11, 1918, with the signing of the armistice, but it wasn’t until six months later that the peace treaty was finalized.

One of the most important parts of the treaty demanded that Germany (and the rest of the Central Powers) accept responsibility for all damage caused during the war.  This was later nicknamed the “War Guilt clause”

and led to the disarming of Germany, giving up of territory, and payment of steep reparations.  Historians now attribute this clause as having been a driving factor in the rise of the Nazi party and the beginning of WWII.

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