Wilson believed that a renewed Germany was crucial to the restoration of Europe. Despite Wilson's calls for reconciliation, the final terms of the Treaty of Versailles were ruthlessly punitive ...

"Germany is not going to break the treaty of Versailles," said Baron Kurtvon Tippleskirch, Boston's German Consul General, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "But if the victorious Allied Powers ...

The five years after World War One were a period of turmoil and instability for Germany: Germany had lost World War One and was severely punished by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Those terms, written in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, weakened the German military, seized control over some of its industry, and took away some of its territories. In the U.S., Hitler's rise ...

In Germany prices doubled between 1914 and 1919. After four disastrous years Germany had lost the war. Under the Treaty of Versailles it ... had tried to take over, and severe unemployment might ...