Treaty of Versaillesin a sentence
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Germany suffered hyperinflation in part due to war reparations required by the Treaty of Versailles.
Treaty of Versailles = the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I
- Kissinger described the Treaty of Versailles as a "brittle compromise agreement between American utopianism and European paranoia — too conditional to fulfill the dreams of the former, too tentative to alleviate the fears of the latter."
- Military units drilled openly, and though powered aircraft were forbidden under the Versailles Treaty, the strength of the burgeoning Luftwaffe was on conspicuous display over an airfield, where gliders swooped over impressed tourists and Hitler Youth.† (source)
- Who is our greatest writer, what is the Treaty of Versailles, which is the nation's fastest airplane?† (source)
- This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an 'unofficial' international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised.† (source)
- Woodrow Wilson, for example, shortly before his death, buffeted by the Senate in his efforts on behalf of the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, rejected the suggestion that he seek a seat in the Senate from New Jersey, stating: "Outside of the United States, the Senate does not amount to a damn.† (source)
- But I recall Lord Darlington opening the discussions by formally welcoming the guests, before going on to outline the strong moral case for a relaxing of various aspects of the Versailles treaty, emphasizing the great suffering he had himself witnessed in Germany.† (source)
- But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country's foreign policy.† (source)
- I was a high minister at the time of the Versailles Treaty and a close friend of Mr. Lloyd-George, who was the head of the British delegation at Versailles.† (source)
- I was a minister at the time of the Versailles Treaty and a close friend of Mr. Lloyd-George, who was the head of the British delegation at Versailles.† (source)
- So I'm going to have a copy of this play (Tapping the manuscript) put in the cornerstone so the people a thousand years from now'll know a few simple facts about us—more than the Treaty of Versailles and the Lindbergh flight.† (source)