Describe the peace treaties ending the First World War and some of their long-term implications
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Students should recognize that the Treaty of Versailles was a unilateral document dictated by France, Britain, and the United States. The treaty had very little input from other European countries, and none at all from nations such as Japan. The Central Powers took no part in the treaty except to sign it. The treaty's punitive measures included large but undefined monetary reparations, a "guilt clause" in which Germany accepted all blame for the war, and the loss of German territory. Woodrow Wilson's plan for self-determinism called for new European nations to be formed along ethnic and linguistic lines. Germany returned Alsace and Lorraine to France, and the Polish state was recreated from eastern Germany. Austria-Hungary and Russia lost territory that became Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and almost a dozen other new nations. Many of these new nations were unstable and fragile entities. The breakup of the Ottoman Empire also left that region unstable, with Allied nations weaker than they had been even before the war.
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