what was the Treaty of Versilles and Wilson's Fourteen points?
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The Versailles Peace Treaty ending World War I was signed on June 28, 1919, about 7 months after the Armistice stopping the fighting on November 11, 1918. It was one of the mos important treaties of the 20th century. It had a huge impact on the international status of Germany, impacting the country territorially, militarily, and economically. Germany was made a pariah country and largely blamed for the start of the War. \n\n\nI. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. \n\nII. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.\n\nIII. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.\n\nIV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.\n\nV. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.\n\nVI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. \n\nVII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired. \n\nVIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. \n\nIX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.\n\nX. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development. \n\nXI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into. \n\nXII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nat
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In an obtuse sense...\n\nWilson's unwise venture into the first World War did allow for the punitive Versailles treaty which may be said to have led in part to the second World War.\n\nOur non-membership in the League of Nations helped to render that organization powerless.\n\nHitler did start the shooting war in '39 and fired the first several million rounds.  Britain & France decided to join the party 3 days later.  The Poland they sought to save was re-arranged by Stalin.\n\nRoosevelt's communist leaning diplomacy was certainly responsible for provoking Japan to attack the US and for inducing Germany to declare war on the US thus making the second World War truly worldwide.\n\nRoosevelt's condescending to Stalin left Eastern Europe without Levi's for 50 years and us paying the taxes for the sillyness of the cold war.
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1)The Treaty of Cahuenga ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War in California.\n\n2)The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War\n\n3)The North American Free Trade Agreement, known usually as NAFTA, is a free trade agreement among Canada, the United States, and Mexico\n\n4)The 1944 United States-Mexico Treaty for Utilization of Water of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande alloted to Mexico a guaranteed annual quantity of water from these sources\n\nThe US also has a limited extradition treaty with Mexico.\n\n\nThese are treaties between the U.S. government and Native Americans in the United States.\n\n    * 1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778)\n    * 1784 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix\n    * 1785 - Treaty of Fort McIntosh\n    * 1785 - Treaty of Hopewell\n    * 1786 - Treaty of Fort Finney\n    * 1788 - Treaty of Buffalo Creek\n    * 1789 - Treaty of Fort Harmar\n    * 1790 - Treaty of New York\n    * 1792 - Treaty of Holston\n    * 1795 - Treaty of Greenville\n    * 1805 - Treaty of Fort Industry\n    * 1807 - Treaty of Detroit\n    * 1814 - Treaty of Fort Jackson\n    * 1815 - Treaty of Springwells\n    * 1817 - Treaty of Fort Meigs\n    * 1818 - Treaty of St. Mary's\n    * 1819 - Treaty of Saginaw\n    * 1821 - Treaty of Chicago\n    * 1825 - Treaty of Prairie du Chien\n    * 1825 - Treaty of Indian Springs\n    * 1825 - Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 Missouri Shawnees were forcibly relocated from Missouri to Kansas. `\n    * 1826 - Treaty of Mississinwas\n    * 1826 - Treaty of Washington (1826)\n    * 1829 - Treaty of Prairie du Chien\n    * 1829 - Treaty of Fort Wayne\n    * 1830 - Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek\n    * 1831 - Treaty of Lewistown\n    * 1832 - Treaty of Cusseta\n    * 1833 - Treaty of Chicago\n    * 1835 - Treaty of New Echota\n    * 1836 - Treaty of Washington (1836)\n    * 1842 - Treaty of La Pointe\n    * 1851 - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux\n    * 1851 - Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)\n    * 1851 - Treaty of Mendota\n    * 1854 - Treaty of La Pointe\n    * 1855 - Treaty of Neah Bay\n    * 1858 - Treaty of Washington (1858)\n    * 1867 - Medicine Lodge Treaty\n    * 1868 - Treaty of Fort Laramie
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History has taught us that peace must be kept at all costs. At the end of World War 1, the common goal between the victorious nations throughout the world was to declare peace. The leading statesmen of these triumphant nations met in Paris to draw up the Treaty of Versailles, which would decide the fate of the central powers. Woodrow Wilson, the American President, created fourteen points as the basis for peace negotiations. Among these fourteen points was the most controversial and yet the most important to President Wilson, the League of Nations. President Wilson developed its charter and soon died from exhaustion after his own country, the United States, refused to ratify it in the senate. American policy had temporarily shifted from isolationism to internationalism because of the war, however the United States senate was not ready for the responsibilities of a world peacekeeper. Due to a republican majority, senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Beveridge, and other isolationist senators helped to sway the rest of congress to deny the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. These senators believed that by entangling themselves in an international organization they would create new alliances, which would commit them to go to war. Also, Lodge felt that the League of Nations would be able to control the United States military by limiting the number of armaments that a nation could have. Due to Article 10 and the limitations on armaments, which the senators objected, and the inability to compromise on the deadlock between the President’s beliefs and the Senators, led to the failure to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. These factors lead the senate to their decision, which left the world vulnerable for another war and the eventual demise of the League of Nations.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1783...\n\nIt was NOT the Treaty of Paris because that treaty ended the French and Indian War.
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Why do you keep asking this question?\n\nAre you really stupid?\n\nWhy not look it up on the internet?\n\n(The initial charter was part of the Versailles peace treaty signed in Versailles, 1919; the treaty was ratified in London in 1920)
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US tried to stay neutral for a while.  The US didn't like the unrestricted sub warfare, so after attacks on American merchant ships, Wilson declared war on Germany.
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Your answers are here\n\nJun. 28, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed in Hall of Mirrors \n\nhttp://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/1919League2.html
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Treaty of Paris in 1783 after the British surrended at the Battle at Yorktown. It was negotiated by Ben Franklin and John Adams in Paris. (The Treaty of Ghent was signed to end the War of 1812.)
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Basically, to unite the world in making multilateral decisions in order to avoid big conflicts in the future. That's the fourteen points in a nutshell.
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I believe you are thinking of when Germany occupied the demilitarized Rhineland in 1936.\n\nWhen Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War in 1919, her government agreed to keep the Rhineland (the area between the Rhine river and the border with France) free of military forces and defensive fortifications. Because Germany accepted guilt for the First World War, this would set up a buffer zone behind which France could feel secure.\n\nIn 1932, when the military provisions of the Treaty were about to expire in 1934, Germany had been forced to sign the Treaty of Locarno which extended the letter of the treaty indefinitely. Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and decided he could tear up the Locarno treaty without the rest of the world reacting militarily. France was in poor shape economically, Italy was considered an outlaw because of her invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, and England was starting to say she would rather have a more powerful Germany between Western Europe and Soviet Russia.\n\nWhen Hitler ordered the reoccupation of the Rhineland, he was taking a very dangerous gamble, and had told his generals not to resist if France opposed this move militarily. By not acting, France not only weakened her own defense but strengthened Hitler's political position in Germany.
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The First World War, or (before 1939) the Great War, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia, and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire). The war caused the collapse of four empires and a radical change in the map of Europe and the Middle East.
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I don't know of any sites to direct you to...\n\nbut you might want to research the economic situation of the countries after WWI...hyperinflation and social instability, which paved the path for Hitler's rise to power.\n\nI would also investigate WHY this happened: the treaty signed punishing Germany, so that they were in the aforementioned economic position...
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"Franklin Delano Roosevelt\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html\nWinston Churchill\nhttp://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1\nJoseph Stalin\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_stalin.html\nMeet the "Big Three". These were the heads of the main allied countries who participated in the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. Yalta is a city on the coast of the Black Sea which was then part of the USSR and is now part of Ukraine. Their mission was to discuss post-war arrangements for Europe. Some of the agreements made at the conference included plans for dividing Germany into four zones of occupation (American, British, French, and Soviet), plans for war crimes trials, and plans for war reparations. Read some of the original documents pertaining to the conference."
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Its size.  Also during WWI and previous, they were part of the "Great Powers" of Great Britain, France, United States.
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Brazil Wenceslau Braz (1914-1918)\nJapan two prime ministers On October 9, 1916, Terauchi Masatake (1852–1919) took over as prime minister from Okuma Shigenobu (1838–1922).\nUnited States Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). \nWell dont be lazy and go to Wikipedia.
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wilson's fourteen points was his ideas behind the formation of the league of nations--a world body that would be able to sustain peace through sharing of resources and cooperation---in which the US Senate wouldn't allow admittance by the US after it was created. The league of nations in the precursor to the United Nations