(! )the punishment of germany by the allies in the treaty of versailles was one of the major factors that led to the rise of hitler and world war ii. (#1)people would still have hated the wiemar govt because they were used to strong leaders (bismarck and wilhelm) and the republic was not. (#2)germany would not have wanted revenge if they were given a just peace so there would be no need to fight again (#3)nationalism would have continued to rise in germany and may have taken a different form but world war ii was still inevitable (#4)germany not being punished in the war would have made the nazi party more of a fringe party (#5)fascism would have still appealed to the german people therefore they would have joined italy and spain regardless (#6)the wiemar republic would not have been as weak and would have been able to survive the great depression (#7)germany still would have gone into a great depression because the rest of the world did, so it would have changed nothing