The Treaty of Versailles certainly did not reflect the Wilson position and was mostly shaped by France and Britain. That's just a fact.
Some people like to argue that the Treaty of Versailles caused WWII, but that's a minority position among historians. The rise of Nazism was more a product of the economic conditions of the Great Depression than the strictures of the Treaty of Versailles. If you look into the current historical consensus, the overly punitive nature of the treaty is really not cited as a culprit for causing WWII.
So, to connect the WWII to Wilson is silly.
Blaming WWII on Versailles is like blaming the return of a fever on the aspirin you took six hours ago.
No, Versailles is not why Wilson has a large share of blame for WWII. Rather it is that Wilson's policies caused the war to be longer than it otherwise would have been. The war very well could have ended in 1915 when the Allies ran out of gold to buy American war material had not Wilson allowed them to raise loans here. The war could have ended in 1917 if there was no prospect of American entry into the war. Heck, even if Wilson had indulged his Anglophilia and managed to use the Lusitania incident to bring the US into the war in 1915, the result would have been a shorter war that would have better all around. A shorter Great War would have been less disruptive and costly, and far less likely to bring the Bolsheviks to power, tho a revolution against the Tsar was always a possibility.
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