Justification for the Treaty of Versailles | History for GCSE/IGCSE - Year 11 PDF Download

The Post-War Treaties

• Several other treaties were instrumental in establishing the Versailles Settlement:
  • The Treaty of St Germain
  • The Treaty of Neuilly
  • The Treaty of Trianon
  • The Treaty of Sevres
• Each of these treaties was signed under duress by representatives of the respective countries.

The Treaty of St Germain

The Treaty of Neuilly

The Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Sevres

Key Opinions on the Treaty of Versailles

Contemporary Opinions of the Treaty of Versailles

A cartoon published in a US newspaper, 1921. Germany is saying, ‘Let’s see you collect it.’

Placard for Lloyd's News on 29th June 1919. It is announcing the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

“If we aim at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare say, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long the forces of Reaction and the despairing convulsions of Revolution, before which the horrors of the later German war will fade into nothing, and which will destroy, whoever is victor, the civilisation and the progress of our generation.”
A quote from the British economist John Maynard Keynes in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)