Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Friday, March 5, 2010

What was Germany's reaction to the Treaty of Versailles?

The terms attached to the armistice of November 1918 had been harsh.

As for the reaction to Versailles, Germany was not allowed to negotiate at all at the Paris Peace Conference ... Scheidemann, the German Prime Minister (as he was called at the time), Gustav Noske (Defence Secretary) and many others wanted to refuse to sign the dictated treaty.
In practice, this would have forced the Allies and above all the French (with their mutinous and increasingly left-wing army) to have ended the armistice and continued World War 1.
However, the German Army said it was in a very bad condition and in no position to fight for the foreseeable future. In these circumstances, Scheidemann (and some others) resigned. At Versailles Rantzau-Brockdorff told the Allies that the treaty was unworkable but ultimately signed under protest.
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