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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop do george

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brought to you by peace treaties A concept that everyone

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with siblings knows all too well Here's your question the

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treaty of versailles placed blame for world war one on

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uh what choice Russia germany The first world war was

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grueling violent and an all around terrible thing for everyone

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involved which is exactly why someone had to be blamed

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And it sure as heck wasn't gonna be the victorious

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allied powers even though all four of our potential answers

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were involved in the great war on ly one of

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them took everyone share of the blame So which poor

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sap took on the role of scapegoat Well let's take

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a look at cnd seeing as a big part of

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taking responsibility for the war involved paying reparations for damages

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A now entirely unintimidating austria hungary and bulgaria managed to

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dodge blame because well they really didn't have any money

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to spare That doesn't work in real life Russia meanwhile

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had already signed a separate peace treaty with germany the

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treaty of restless tossing in the treaty russia's seated the

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baltic states to germany the province of cars oh blast

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To the ottoman empire and paid six billion german gold

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marks in reparations The allies basically figured this was punishment

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enough which leaves us with b germany Sorry germany had

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to be someone Despite fighting in a coalition with austria

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hungary bulgaria and the ottoman empire germany took essentially all

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of the blame for the war even took rush a

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share of the blame despite the fact that the entire

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war started with russia's support for serbian indep tendons from

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austria hungary Well the treaty of her sighs signed in

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nineteen ninety force germany to accept responsibility for the war

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which came with a hefty war debt He took nearly

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one hundred years to repay this debt affected the german

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economy and site geist our overall mood so much that

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it actually paved the way for adolf hitler's eventual rise

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to power in the late nineteen twenties and thirties The

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next time you're making a peace treaty with your siblings

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just remember it could be a whole lot worse Shmoop 00:02:03.329 --> [endTime] oh

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