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Studies emphasize that the enforcement of the treaty and the political decisions of the subsequent years played a more critical role in leading to WWII than the treaty itself. Reparations were manageable, and Germany remained a significant economic and industrial power despite territorial reductions. The assumption that the treaty directly caused the outbreak of another war has been questioned, with some arguing that the failure to uphold the treaty’s provisions and the political shifts in the 1930s were more decisive.

The Churn of a New Order and Lingering Uncertainty