POV: you’re watching this for history

I think Americas idea would probably have worked best, being punished for the first world war made the people of Germany angry, meaning Hitler could more easily gain their favour. However, if they weren't punished, Germans would not have much to be angry about and therefore not care about payback.

Sadly ironic how the German Empire was ended the same place it started, the Hall of Mirrors

Serbia: kill Franz Austria-Hungary: attack Serbia German Empire: supports its ally The World: Germany is responsible for WWI Me: 😐

I agree with Woodrow Wilson, you can't really blame Germany for starting ww1 because they didn't, Serbia and Austria-Hungary started the war.

fun fact: germany fully paid the reperations from the treaty of versailes in 2010 (Edit October 2020: I love how I started a discussion and a war in the replies just by telling a fun fact)

Didn't mention why Germany was given 100% of the blame, Reality - Austria- Hungary starts it by knowingly and cynically overreacting to assassination of an Arch-duke in Serbia (imagine US nuking the middle easy after 9/11 - like Howard Stern wanted) - Russia fully mobilizes, then Germany fulfills its treaty obligations, as do France and Great Britain.

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Teacher: who caused WWI Me: The Uber driver

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*WWII happens* Europe: "Why would Germany do this?" Germany: "Really.....Really?"

WW1: happens Allies: wE tHiNk GeRmAnY iS tHe ImPoStEr! *Germany was not the Impostor*

Treaty of Versailles: exist* Hitler: *Wow, this is worthless!*

The allies with the least damage and least loss of life were the most lenient at Versailles. Pretty elementary, isn't it?

"Just sign the treaty. You're to blame. End of argument. Just sign it"

Serbia: kills archduke Franz Ferdinand Everyone: “Germany is responsible for WW1” Me: ....

Interesting to note that the French adopted a harsh stance at Versailles after the US decided not to enter the League of Nations. The US promised France protection from Germany in exchange for a mildly harsh treaty. When the US didn't enter the League, France was forced to improvise with the Treaty.

france is now paying the consequences of the treaty by surrender memes

1:37 lul 21 Years later france was overrun in not even 4 weeks

Wilson was on the right when he said he didn’t want Germany to be blamed. Austria-Hungary and Serbia should of shared the blame for starting such a brutal war.

I can absolute understand why Germans despised the French after WW1.

I agree with Wilson

USA: Let us create a League of Nations, I don't want another world war, Germany will not be destroyed and don't blame Germany for the war France: Nah I will get revenge, I will claim my lands no League of Nations and I want them to pay us a lot of money UK: Nah I want them to pay, I want Germany's colonies for my empire and to have a stronger navy All: *fighting*

Treaty of Versailles was the biggest mistake human ever did in our history period.

It's kind of insane how accurate Wilson was with his prediction of what would happen if germany would get all the blame for ww1 and that this should be prevented by building the league of nations and not playing the blame game. Instead of focusing on preventing another world war they were just after revenge while not understanding that this would only lead to more revenge from the other side. We could live in a world where ww2 never happened if people would have just listened to wilson.

You had it coming France, see what happened in WW2? That's...that's what happen when you push people to their limits

pov: you're watching this for history in 2024

As Martial Ferdinand Foch said at the treaty of Versailles "This is not a peace, but an armistice for 20 years." if only he knew how true he would be...

World War 2, and the Treaty of Versailles taught the world a very valuable lesson. Never take out your frustration on a country, to the country's people. The soldiers were required to fight, and the people were completely innocent. When Germany fell, France essentially dismantled Germany, and made it nearly impossible for them to figure out a way to fix the economic state. They created a third world country out of Germany. Then, Adolf Hitler, an angry veteran rose to power. And, what do you know? He militarizes Germany. France was one of the first countries to be trampled upon and controlled by the Nazis. For some reason, when Germany in particular unites, it becomes an extremely efficient country. World War 1, and World War 2 especially are great examples. When Germany unites, you want them on your side, and not pissed off at you. That's exactly what both the United States and Soviet Union intended on doing. Soviet Union wanted Germany as a communist country, and America wanted it to be capitalist. The Germans chose America here, and Germany is currently among the most efficient and thriving countries in the world. France on the other hand is thriving off of tourism.

Great work I showed all my classes these videos. They are a good and accurate simplification of a very complex negotiation. I'm trying to get on your level.

I think one lesson I have learnt from all of these world war events, is the extent to which anger, bitterness, hatred and revenge can push you.

What the victorious powers failed to understand when making the treaty, was that the continent was a single economic unit tied together not just by geography but also trade systems that increased the well being and the quality of life for all europeans. Disrupting the economic eco-system, way too high reparations, exploiting a countrys ressources and businesses, made no economic sense but was down right dangerous. Mostly dictated by vengaence, greed and political oppurtunism and self dellusion, as they redraw borders to gain former prestige. They completely ignored the economic reality the world has created. It was a economic disaster, still I asked my eco-prof how such a thing could have been prevented. Enough reason for him to take a large part of our lesson about history where everyone had to gather ideas that we discussed. The results: desolving germany, entirely occupying it or split it up in an even larger scale would have led not only to an even bigger catastrophe, but could have crippled europe entirely. The best plausible way to negotiate would have been to adopt wilsons 14 points, but also adopt germanys middle europe project and create a economic union to stabilize the continental economy as well as confer any possible territorial changes with germanys and austrias diplomats. Future good relations are indispensable for trade and diplomacy, I'm just glad they learned this lesson after ww2 and rebuild europes entire economy and adopted the ideas of people like Keynes and Rathenau.

Versailles has generated a huge number of new conflicts around the world.

Had to watch for my high school history class, but was very easy to understand, and very fun to watch!!

I see the better animations in your vids means you guys are doing great progress keep it up!!!!

since we now know that the harsh reparations cost of ww1 is partly what caused Germany to start ww2, would Clemenceau's idea of no standing army have kept Germany from gaining too much power and attacking, despite the harsh reperations?

This video was very interesting and it told me things that I would I never knew about otherwise. It also helped me with my history work in school. 😁

The worst treaty every made...

your videos are the best because they 2x as short but they explain 2x better then the others

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

Fact: Ho Chi Minh sents a letter to Woodrow Wilson while people are celebrating, the letter was ignore, the letter asking Woodrow Wilson to negotiate with France to deconlonize Indochina

It was very unfair, but the treaty of Trianon was much worse, 70%, yes, 70% of the 1000 year old Hungary was given to other countries, mainly to Czechoslovakia, Romania and "Yugoslavia".

Clear and to the point. Thank you

love this channel.

You are awesome man ❤

Imagine you go back to 1914 as the driver of Archduke Ferdinand

Really helpful. Thanks!!

I have seen other treaties but this one take's it to a hole new level

SUMMARY OF PART ONE AND TWO The Treaty of Versailles, What Did the Big Three Want? (Video detailed summary) (part one) * World War I officially came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. 
 * 32 countries had come together in Paris in January 1919 to hold a conference which would make peace after the First World War.
 * It would be dominated by the big three:
 * David Lloyd George representing Britain;
 * Georges Clemenceau representing France;
 * Woodrow Wilson representing the USA.
 * Germany was not invited.
 * The Big Three wanted different things for Germany and disagreed on how harshly they were to be punished reflecting how their countries were treated in the war.
 * They had to negotiate with each other until there was a compromise.
 * This was difficult because Wilson was opposed to harsh punishment for Germany.
 * The USA had not been involved in the war as long as Britain and France and had not received as much damage. He wanted to prevent another world war by creating the league of nations based on his fourteen points to ensure Germany would not be destroyed and that Germany shouldn't be blamed for the war.
 * Clemenceau (france) aims were the harshest of the three -- representing the damage Germany had done to France's land and people and its threatening proximity. He wanted revenge and to punish Germany to return Alsace Lorraine to France, an independent Rhineland, no league of nations, Germany to pay huge reparations for the damage and losses caused, the disbandment of the German Army so that Germany would never be strong enough to attack France again.
 * Lloyd George (Britain) was an in-between. This reflected Britain which had little land damage, but high war losses. He wanted a punishment that would be tough enough to please those who wanted to make Germany pay, but would leave Germany strong enough to still trade land for Britain's Empire to safeguard Britain's naval supremacy.
 * When the Treaty of Versailles was ready, Germany was shown the document, but there was no negotiation, their rebuttal ignored.
 * On 28th June 1919 the Delegates met at the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles near Paris and forced two German representatives to sign it.
 ------ The Treaty of Versailles, Terms of the Treaty (Video detailed summary) (part two) * The terms of the Treaty of versailles can be divided into three groups
 * Territorial, military, financial and economic
 * Here are some of the territorial terms
 * Lorraine was returned to france
 * Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria lands in East Germany Including the farmlands of Posen and the polish corridor between East Germany and East prussia were given to poland
 * The Saar Which Had rich coal fields were given to France for 15 years
 * All Germany's colonies were taken and given to France and britain as mandates
 * Here are some of the military terms 
 * The German army was restricted to only 100,000 men. The Navy could now only have six battleships and no submarines and there was to be no air force allowed
 * The Rhineland was demilitarized this meant the German army could not go to this area between France and Germany
 * For the financial and economic terms 
 * Germany would have to pay reparations which would eventually be set at an enormous 132 Billion Gold marks on top of this germany was not allowed to join the league of nations and had to accept responsibility for causing all the damage and Loss by the war
 * Overall the Treaty of versailles was unpopular with Germany and its creators
 * Its terms would go on to be reversed by Germany in both secret and in the open by Hitler and help cause world war two

if everyone listened to Wilson, good chance WW2 would not have happened

it has been so useful thanks so much!

Germany never started WW1.They just supported their ally Austria-Hungary which started the conflict with declaring war on Serbia.I am really laughing for those who think that Germany has started the First World War.

Great video, looking forward to more! One of the other reasons for Lloyd George's approach btw was that he wanted a strong Germany to act as a buffer against the impending threat of spreading communism, and in particular a reaction to the attempted socialist revolution in the Battle of George Square.

In fact, Clemenceau was not this extreme. He was even disaccording with the president, Poincaré who wanted to follow the war far more in the german lands. Poincaré fought his whole life to make germany pay its war indemnities (that will never be paid : when he decided to occupy ruhr to make them do it, the british blocked french money and made France stop its politics), when Clemenceau was called "father victory"... Alsace Lorraine had been taken in 1871 and France paid a big amount of money for its defeat. It was not so far for these people...

amazing really amazing thank you so much for this

Great summary for students!!!!

one mistake i noticed in the video is that the treaty wasn't signed in nov 11 1918, it was the armistice that Hindenburg and ludendorf called Wilhelm to ask for, the treaty of Versailles wasn't signed until 28th june 1919

i have tomorrow my igcse so I'm super nervous and I'm watching videos to understand everything hahaha

Thank u so much edward

Who knew I get to watch this for history!

watching this before my history test LOL

I was forced to watch this and i LOVE it

great video

I really enjoyed it had good imformation

Woodrow Wilson wanted to “prevent another world war?” Wtf France and Britain why didn’t you choose that?

The Treaty was actually much harsher than any of these videos describe. German private businesses could be taken over without pardon by the french. They would be estimated at low values and add up to the ''To Pay'' list. They could take over freely any German (future) invention even if they were patented and forbid the company to use their own invention. They could take over new ships that Germany built.. even merchant vessels. Germany was only allowed to keep their old ones that France did not want, they were basicly building for the allies now. Germany lost all rights to their own rivers; They had to pay a special tax to be able to use their own rivers for trade. Can you imagine a private business owner losing his entire business just because a Frenchman said ''I want it''? It destroyed millions of lifes and was utterly unfair. The treaty was aimed at making even the normal citizen's lives terrible. And all of these more in-depth rules.. added up to losing all overseas territory and european territory that had been German for hundreds of years. ''The Economic Consequences of the Peace'' by John Maynard Keynes describes in a most objective fashion the details of the treaty. It goes way beyond your imagination. John Keynes was a British economist at that time and dealt with alot of political situations for Britain.

I did not expect my history teacher to choose you simplehistory

How do you make these sort of videos? I need to make a presentation by next week

By this young generation were thought "if you win you need not have to explain your actions , but if you are lost you should take all the responsibility"" .😥such a harsh world.. France is week to manage Germany alone, it is a fact that all has to agree.

WW1 was most pointless war ever fought.

Do you take Requests?

Well explained

I died when it said germany wasn't invited lmao.

America had the better idea.

Good video

Hi Wilson!

Germany signs the treaty: I will never financially recover from this

Serbia started the war. Right?

POV: your history teacher told you to watch this and then say that it’s a good channel so you should follow

Nice video

Worth noting that Germany had imposed a very harsh Brest-Litovsk treaty on Russia after winning on the Eastern Front.

You can't have peace if all's you want is revenge.

im in year 9 rn, cant wait to come back and watch this in year 11

El Tratado de Versalles (francés: Traité de Versailles) fue el más importante de los tratados de paz que pusieron fin a la Primera Guerra Mundial. El Tratado puso fin al estado de guerra entre Alemania y las potencias aliadas. Se firmó el 28 de junio de 1919 en Versalles, exactamente cinco años después del asesinato del archiduque Franz Ferdinand, que había conducido directamente a la guerra. Las otras potencias centrales del lado alemán firmaron tratados separados. [6] Aunque el armisticio, firmado el 11 de noviembre de 1918, puso fin a los combates reales, se necesitaron seis meses de negociaciones aliadas en la Conferencia de Paz de París para concluir el tratado de paz. El tratado fue registrado por la Secretaría de la Sociedad de Naciones el 21 de octubre de 1919. Now this is what I call a quality comment

It's really stupid that Germany got the blame instead of Serbia and Austro-Hungary

Perhaps if they were harsher their may not have been another war, or maybe if they were less harsh.........we will never know

how do you have such a perfect and calm voice ?

In all of the debt negotiations following Versailles, Australia never agreed to any German debt moratorium or reduction. Which leaves Germany in debt to Australia today at $200.0Bn, and that figure is without interest.

But Germany didn’t start ww1, it was Austria and Serbia

Germany: *gets rekked by treaty of versailles* Austria: *is ok* Germany: wait this operation was your idea

I like how this video is made.

So much for being a treaty, i wouldnt consider a peace treaty a treaty unless there is some form of negotiations on both sides

"vengance is a fools game" Arthur Morgan 1899. And france will learn this lesson in 1940.

Has any of these guys commenting here that the treaty was too harsh,read what Germany imposed on other countries in WW2, perhaps, for instance, The Treaty of Brest Litovsk?

Haha I have my history mocks tomorrow morning 🙃🙃

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treaty of versailles shouldn't been that much harsh as it was the prime cause of second world war

The Allies treated Germany like a monster 20 years later it chose to become the monster they made it out to be.

This is a very special and historical document.

Funny how Clemenceau was depicted to always be angry and Wilson is smiling