Question

How did ideas of national self-determination influence the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 1

National Self-Determination is the free decision by the individuals of a community of their own ultimate legislative standing. The national self-determination was the idea that communities should govern themselves and that the individuals would be able to determine the eventual legislative standing of their country. In the settlement of Versailles, lands were rendered to their people.

Answer 2

The ideas of national self-determination influence the Treaty of Versailles is that the multinational states like Austro- Hungaria or the Ottoman Empire got destroyed. By taking the West Prussia from Germany, Poland was created. Other nations like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were also created.