Treaty Of Versailles Dbq

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria set in motion the events that led up to World War One. After the war was over, the Treaty of Versailles that was intended to bring peace isolated and targeted Germany, this unfair treatment of Germany led to the second World War. One aspect of Europe that went unchanged was the fact that Germany had hostile relations with most of Europe. However, what changed was the ways in which countries like France and England dealt Germany. Since its conception, Germany has always seemed like an enemy to most of the European world; This did not change after WWI. The German economy had been ravaged by the conditions outlined in the Treaty of Versailles, the German Chancellor Heinrich Bruning was desperate to …show more content…
The intended audience of this speech were the German citizens who were becoming resentful of the western world for punishing them for the war. He wants to make Germany’s economy and spending habits translucent as to show the world that they do not need to impose such heavy protective restrictions on Germany. Germany had been forced to give up quite a bit of land and pay reparations to the other nations that participated in WWI. Adolf Hitler attempted to keep peace within Europe by tackling anti-German influence head on. In document 6 Hitler allows the troops to march into Bohemia and Moravia to combat the anti-German sentiment growing in those countries. Hitler’s intended audience for this address were German citizens, he wanted to inspire a sense of Nationalism within them and garner their support. These documents connect because while the chancellor is trying to quell the discontent of the population,