The Inter-Allied Commission determined the amount and presented its findings in The amount they determined was billion gold Reichmarks, or 32 billion U. Germans grew to resent the harsh conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. However, in spite of the fact that 32 state legislatures passed resolutions in favor of the Treaty, the U.
Senate strongly opposed it. Senate opposition cited Article 10 of the Treaty, which dealt with collective security and the League of Nations. This article, opponents argued, ceded the war powers of the U. Kennedy signed The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May , over a territorial dispute involving Texas. The treaty added an additional , square miles to The instability created in Europe by the First World War set the stage for another international conflict—World War II—which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating.
Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. The Fourteen Points In a speech to Congress in January , Wilson laid out his idealistic vision for the post-war world.
Diplomacy should be public, with no secret treaties. All nations should enjoy free navigation of the seas. All countries should reduce arms in the name of public safety. Fair and impartial rulings in colonial claims. Humiliated, Germany seethed for revenge. A new war, which everyone had hoped to avoid, was already blowing up on the horizon almost as soon as the German delegation receded over it.
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