The Treaty Of Trianon A Disastrous World War - 2155 Words

The Treaty of Trianon Once the devastating, disastrous World War I had ended at the eleventh hour in the morning of November 11, 1918, peace treaties ensued and the post-war boundaries of Europe were redrawn. In 1919, the â€Å"Big Four†- David Lloyd George of England, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson from the United States, convened to discuss how the enemies, predominantly Germany, would pay for the damage of the aftermath of the total war. Although, it was not just one treaty drafted but several separate ones with each country who had a hand in this calamitous conflict. President Wilson set forth the Fourteen Points in the Paris Peace conference in which he believed it would bring stability to Europe; however, the final peace treaty resulted in little similarity to the Fourteen Points and largely came about to result in the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany had little choice but to sign it. One of the other treaties w as The Treaty of Trianon, signed by Hungary under protest, in which they were to pay for reparations and forced to agree to have their land size as well as its military to be significantly reduced. Due to the harsh, â€Å"peace-making† treaty, Hungary was left in a state of turmoil, pieced to dismemberment, and consequently, discriminatory conflicts took place. Hungary was once a large, great empire conjoined with Austria commonly known as the Dual-Monarchy; however, after the assassination of Archduke Franz