Did the treaty of Versailles create a permanent peace or one built upon quicksand? Explain

Quicksand. The treaty, though intended by Wilson to foster his 14 points and prevent another Great War, severely punished the defeated Germans, at the demand of Clemenceau of France and the Prime Minister of Britain. Inflation crippled the German economy, dissatisfied veterans tried to overthrow the government. In subsequent years, Hitler would use German citizens’ resentment toward the Versailles treaty the nation’s poverty to hate Jews and the Western nations, thus leading to WWII