World War I, the diplomats attending the Paris Peace Conference met in Versailles to draft a peace treaty that would both end the state of war and redraw the map of Europe. They created the Treaty of Versailles, a document that has been placed under extreme scrutiny and analysis in the decades since its conception. Though it is debatable if the treaty can be blamed for the emergence of Nazi Germany and the outbreak of World War II, there is no question that many Germans were angered by the treaty and found its conditions to be unacceptable. As a result, there was extreme unrest in Germany after the war; leading to revolutions, a string of assassinations, and the inception of a number of radical political parties. The newly created government was incapable of handling the demands the treaty had placed on it, as well as the growing resentment and violent...
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