WWI

WWI The Historian John Lukacs has written that WWI and WWII are two halves of the same coin. Discuss. The war that began in 1914 as a war to end all wars actually ended in 1945. World War Two was the child of World War One. The word treaty is defined in Webster’s dictionary as “negotiation; agreement between two or more nations”. At Versailles in 1919 there were no negotiations other than between the “victors”. The German delegation was told of the terms of the agreement only a few weeks prior to the signing of the document. They were given the choice of either sign the document or prepare to be invaded by Allied forces. The “Surrender” of Versailles was signed June 28, 1919 in the same railroad car where the Germans had celebrated the victory over the French in the Franco-Prussian War. The terms of the document signed at Versailles left Germany degraded, weak and embarrassed. They were unable to defend themselves as their once powerful army was all but destroyed. Much of their territory was annexed by neighboring states eager to take revenge for long past quarrels. And the huge burden of war, german, germany, versailles, people, two, treaty, nations, league, france, document, world, terms, over, lloyd, george, felt, between, wilson, wars, victory, take, states, same, rest, new, government, clemenceau, britain, again, 1919, wwii, wwi, very, united