The Treaty of Versailles: How Peace Helped Create Another War

The Treaty of Versailles was designed to secure lasting peace after the First World War. Instead, it left Europe divided, economically fragile, and politically unstable.

In this episode, we explore how reparations, territorial losses, military restrictions, national humiliation, and the weakness of the League of Nations shaped the years between the two world wars. We also examine how the Great Depression and Adolf Hitler transformed resentment against the treaty into a powerful political weapon.

The Treaty of Versailles did not make another war inevitable, but it created many of the conditions that extremists later exploited.