ler maneuvered Germany into World War II. The Treaty of Versailles provided him with the excuse of revenge as a motive for Germanys aggressions in the years before the second world war. Resentment among the German people towards the suffering and humiliation they had been enduring at the hands of the hated treaty fueled Hitlers cause. The Treaty of Versailles accomplished nothing more than to cause yet another world war. This time the destruction would be complete. Germany would lose its sovereignty for almost half a century, split between democracy and communism. European decline was completed, and two new powers dominated the world: the United States and the Soviet Union. The Old World countries of Europe would never again wield the power they once had, victims of their own vengeful reactionary nationalism. (38) The Treaty of Versailles brought what many had begun to expect it would: war.Endnotes1 Keynes, John Maynard, The Economic Consequences of Peace, (New York: Harcourt, Bruce, and Howe, 1920), 238.2 Birdsall, Paul, Versailles Treaty Twenty Years After, (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941), 295.3 Keynes, Economic Consequences, 67.4 Birdsall, Versailles Treaty, 173.5 Ibid., 177.6 Ibid., 180.7 Brian Tierney and Joan Scott, eds., Western Societies: A Documentary History, Vol. 2, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), German Surrender: The Versailles Treaty, 480.8 Birdsall, Versailles Treaty, 253.9 Ibid., 253.10 Ibid., 254.11 Ibid., 255.12 Ibid., 255.13 Tierney and Scott, Western Societies, 431.14 Chambers, Mortimer, Raymond Grew, David Herlihy, Theodore Robb, Isser Woloch, The Western Experience, Vol. 2, (New York: McGraw-Hill, Sixth Edition, 1995), 896.15 Keynes, Economic Consequences, 82.16 Ibid., 83.17 Ibid., 66.18 Ibid., 167.19 Ibid., 209.20 Clemenceau, Georges, Grandeur and Misery of Victory, Trans. F.M. Atkinson, (New York: Harcourt, Bruce, and Company, 1930), 120.21 Birdsall, Versailles Treaty, 169.22 Clemenceau...
