The Versailles System Was Doomed to Failure as Long as the Soviet Union and the United States Did not Participate

After the first World War, the two main powers in the world were the USA, under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson, and the USSR- the newly revolutionised, newly Communist Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin.
It was decided by the European states that had been affected by the war that Germany was the responsible party, and as a result must face the consequences for her actions. This was to be discussed at conferences sat to settle up a treaty, to be known in the future as the treaty of Versailles, or the Versailles System. …