In this post, I'll be answering 2 questions posted by my History teacher. The first one is, "Why do you think History is Important?"
*In my opinion History is very important because there are a million valuable lessons we can learn from the past. There are so many mistakes we can learn from. By learning from our mistakes, we could prevent ourselves from doing the same mistake again. There are also some actions in the past that proved to be fatal. Trigger factors of the World War I is one of them. The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in turn led to World War I. If Archduke Franz Ferdinand were to be spared from an assasination, would there be any World War? It is impossible to know. It is true that all these things happened in the past. There is a saying, "Let bygones be bygones". However, this saying is not entirely true. In fact, we should not let the past slide out of our memory. We should hold on to it and learn as many things from it as we can.
The Second question is whether the Treaty of Versailles was a fair one.
*The treaty of Versailles was held in France many years ago. So why are we still talking about it? Shouldn't we forget the past and just move on? In my perspective, no. We should in fact be thinking whether this treaty led to World War II due to its "Unfairness" or was it other factors that led to the Second World War. To me, The treaty was unfair to a large extent. Germany and Russia would be largely affected by the treaty. And no representatives from these countries were allowed to attend the Paris Peace Conference. Germany and the rest of the losing sides were not invited to join the conference. Was this fair? No. Germany were not allowed to decide their own fate! Their fate were on the hands of Britain, France and U.S.A. The treaty was too harsh on Germany. This led to the Germans plotting for revenge against the other nations.