The Treaty of Versailles

In reading about the Treaty of Versailles, I thought about how throughout history France and Germany are always enemies. It may not be this way today, but it is still and interesting pattern. For centuries, the Bourbons hated the Hapsburgs. Otto von Bismarck started the Franco-Prussian War to remove French influence in the southern German states and to complete German Unification. Now in the Treaty Versailles, France wanted Alsace-Lorraine (which they lost from the Franco-Prussian War) back, and basically wanted to ensure that Germany would stay weak.
The pettiness and immaturity demonstrated by the Treaty of Versailles is almost sickening. Could World War II have been avoided if this treaty had not been so harsh? No one can really say, but it's possible. The Guilt Clause placed all the blame on Germany. By punishing and humiliating them, the Allies allowed a country that was also devastated by war to play the victim. Then people like Hitler could justify restoring "the frontiers of 1914" "only by blood"(Mein Kampf, 1924). Wilson's Fourteen Points seem--I can't believe I am writing this--too idealistic. I think if I had been living at the time, I would have agreed with him, and I still do. However, we are still so far from achieving that neatly outlined world. After reading it, I thought "How simple." I'm not going to stop hoping.