May 22, 2013

The Peace Talks main point and goal was to balance nations and make them co dependant on each other also to spread democracy around the word so that the people could elect the government officials making it harder for the countries to fight each other everything would be settled throughout the “American Principal”. Wilsons 14 points were many different countries inspiration for the right way to piece. The Peace Talks and ideals Wilson set out to spread thought the world was over all a good way to get an everlasting peace worldwide. Where he went wrong is the obsession he had in the “big picture” and not clearing the details up with the inner most parts of his ideas, many were disregarded and left to sought out for themselves to deal with their higher authority which would be directly affected and benefitted by what the Peace Talks had to offer
The failure of the peace talks is not directly responsible for the rise of Hitler and the Nazis for several reasons. First off the conditions stated and the ideas the Peace Talks were introducing had too many loop holes to many contradictions for everyone to be benefitted by it. Some select groups of people were directly positively influenced by the conditions of the Peace Talks but a vast majority were disregarded and left behind to deal with their political issues alone deprived from the privileges the Peace Talks provide. For example the issues Ireland was having with great Brittan to become its own independent peoples would not have benefitted from anything the Peace Talks had to offer. “All these people have the right to live their lives under a Governments they themselves chose to set up” yet had no sympathy for Irish nationalists and their struggle to free themselves from British rule” ( bottom of page 131;”Tragedy of Disappointment”; Portrait of America). Like that there were many controversial and opaque ideas about the Peace Talks that ultimately would have made things worse for many if did anything positive at all for those who it was directed to. The relationship much of Europe had towards Germany was already fractured because of previous occasions in which Germany had disputes with is surrounding neighbors. Such as France that was still bitter about the moneys paid over and the loss of their providences of Alsace and Lorraine. Germany was already under the jurisdictions of the Treaty of Paris that imposed war guilt and very stiff financial penalties. Germany was being punished for their previous wrong doing and would not have sought relief from that under the Peace Talks. Once Germanys treaty finished much of Germany was also bitter for the hard economical times Europe had caused to its people. The Peace Talks, if had worked out, wouldn’t have changed Germanys fate to the point where they did not seek out revenge or someone to blame. Germany wanted change and support none of the treaties , Treaty of Versailles or league of nations, could have offered to them Germany wanted someone they could see a new beginning with and with that came the support of Hitler and his radical ideas.