- The Versailles Treaty, which ended the Great War, was entirely consistent with Wilson’s principles: Germany was mercilessly punished, despoiled of her colonies and burdened with such crushing financial reparations that, as the economists predicted, economic collapse was inevitable.
- With a conflicted economy and a population rapidly approaching 100 million, Germany needed to break free from the constraints of Versailles in order to fulfill her economic aspirations. The Versailles Treaty brought to an end Hungary and Austria as once-great powers.
- It is doubtful that Andreas Hillgruber’s Krieg im Dunkeln will ever be surpassed as an account of how Germany slid into the catastrophe of the First World War. But the origins of the Second World War are not to be found in events that transpired in the dark. Hitler pursued no secret diplomacy, and his foreign policy on all fronts was there for all to see.
Use the excerpt from “The Unnecessary War” to answer the question.
Select the three highlighted examples that cite Germany’s aggressive behavior at the beginning of the war.
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