On 18th January a conference was convened in Paris France in the town of Versailles in the hall
of mirrors, between Germany and the allied
forces, to settle and solve the
problems that had been brought by
World war 1914 and also to prevent the occurrence of
another war in future .27 countries
attended the meeting that include; France, Britain, U.S.A, Spain, Greece, Belgium
,Switzerland, Peru ,etc.
OBJECTIVES
OF THE VERSILLES
1.
The primary objective was to maintain world peace
and security by creating the
environment that favors peace they
adopted the slogan that “we declare war
to end” after realizing how the
war was devastating to
humanity all their efforts were put towards complete eliminating
of possible war in future similar to that of the first
2.
To maintain and keep
the principle of European balance
of power which German had disorganized
during her unification that required the redistribution of territories in Europe and equal military
and economic power this would be one of the strategies to avoid future confrontation among the imperialist nations of Europe in
case all nations were military and
economically equal
3.
It
also aimed to Germany a friendly nation although was to be pushed for having
caused the war, isolation of
Germany would have brought more conflicts between the victor and power
Germany herself, thus to avoid
that was to make Germany a
friendly nation.
4.
The
Versailles men also aimed to reduce armament to all countries as to avoid arms race after realizing that competition in
manufacturing weapons was one on of the
key factors that led to the outbreak
of world war one, thus all
powers were suppose disarm their deadly
weapons as to maintain world security
5.
They
also aimed to recognize nationalism in
Europe and Africa by granting independence
to those countries that had been occupied by Germany, and avoiding future re- occupation of other nations after
realizing that the sprite for national struggle may create war in future ,
6.
The
Versailles men also aimed to punish Germany and his allies for having caused
the war eg. Australia, Turkey by asking
her to pay war reparations, although the punishment to Germany
and her allies were to ‘humiliating and heavy to their economies and
national security