2. It wasn’t the biggest issue of the treaty by a long shot, thus the smallest slice, but really, if your country was having issues and war seemed like a good option, and political tension was on the rise everywhere anyways, wouldn’t you be peeved if your country had to take all the blame? 11%.

4. The third biggest cause, because handing over land is handing over resources. Handing over resources means taking longer to get back on your feet. And Germany was already in trouble. 20%.

5. They had to pay heavy reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers. The total cost of these reparations was assessed at 132 billion Marks in 1921 which is roughly equivalent to US$ 385 billion in 2011, a sum that many economists deemed to be excessive and would have taken Germany until 1988 to pay.

6. This is the biggest cause. Really, France could have paid the reparations themselves in 3 years, but because they decided that that would be too much of a strain, they decided to make it worse on Germany’s already strained economy. Really, if you were already in a horrible financial crisis, and then somebody came by and said “You owe me money for walking through my flowers”, and took everything you had left, wouldn’t you want to start something to get out of that pit? 30%.Germany had no chance to have a say. They did not matter to the proceedings, apparently. <br />Second smallest cause. Really, cause all that trouble, be in all that trouble, and have absolutely no way to help yourself anyways? That sucks. 14%.<br />Responsible<br />Disarm<br />Land loss<br />Reparations<br />Silence<br />