Terms of the Treaty:
1. Germany was to take sole responsibility for causing the war
2. Territorial Concessions:
- Alsace-Lorraine given back to France
- Eupen and Malmedy given to Belgium
- Northern Schleswig given to Denmark
- Hultschin given to Czechoslovakia
- West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia given to Poland to open the Polish Corridor
3. Reparation of 132 billion gold marks was to be paid to France
4. Disarmament:
- The German army was limited to a maximum of 100,000 men
- Bans on heavy artillery, gas, tanks, aircraft and submarines
- German ships were seized as compensation for ships destroyed by the Germans in Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
- Demilitarization of the Rhineland
5. No Anschluss
6. Germany was not allowed to join the League of Nations
Note. Separate treaties were signed with Austria (St Germain), Hungary (Trianon), Bulgaria (Neuilly) and the Ottoman Empire (Sevres). Collectively, they are referred to as the Paris Peace Settlement. (However, the Ottoman Empire resumed fighting and a new treaty, much more favourable to Turkey, was signed at Lausanne in 1923).
The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:
Germany was invited to comment but not allowed to negotiate the treaty at all and signed under protest. Whenever they tried to query any detail they were told that they had started the war and had no right to complain about anything in the treaty.
AnswerThis Treaty was designed to make Germany pay for the war that it had allegedly started. Another aim was to weaken Germany.All German overseas possessions were over handed to the allies as League of Nations Mandates, the primary benefactors being the British and French, although the Japanese were allowed to keep several islands they had taken from Germany in the Pacific. Second, the Rhineland was demilitarized, and Germany was forbidden to have troops there. In fact, Germany was forbidden from rearming itself beyond defensive purposes.
Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France; large tracts of Western Prussia and the province of Posen were restored to the newly created Poland; East Prussia was separated rest of Germany by what came to be known as the Polish Corridor. Germany was also forced to pay exhorbitant reparations to Britain, France, Belgium, the US and Japan. The Treaty did also established a League of Nations to mediate international conflicts and enforce international law, but the Europeans had little desire for mediation and America just wanted to get out of European affairs.
The Germans had to give all their coal mines to France, had to reduce their military presence, they had to demantle their marine and aviation forces, had to give Austria and Tchecoslovaquia independence, and lost the right to make alliances.
germany had to give up many of it's colonies including alsace and lorraine.
germany was also banned from using conscription to build up it's military.
germany was only allowed 100,000 men in its military and could not have and air-force. germany also had to demilitarize the rhineland.
Germany had to pay 30 billion dollars in reparations. They had to demeliterize. and were not allowed to make any more weapons.
3 were that Germany had to give up some land, never create a large army and pay heavy taxes to the allies
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The terms of peace laid out by the Versailles Treaty were actually plans to decimate the German military and economy.
it's the treaty of Versailles and its a peace treaty
Treaty of Versailles
The terms of the Treaty of Versailles, was announced on 7th May 1919
The Versailles Treaty created peace only because it ended the fighting. All it did was punish Germany for its part in the war.
The terms of peace laid out by the Versailles Treaty were actually plans to decimate the German military and economy.
The treaty of Versailles.
The terms of peace laid out by the Versailles Treaty were actually plans to decimate the German military and economy.
The terms of peace laid out by the Versailles Treaty were actually plans to decimate the German military and economy.
it's the treaty of Versailles and its a peace treaty
Treaty of Versailles
The terms of the Treaty of Versailles, was announced on 7th May 1919
Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty created peace only because it ended the fighting. All it did was punish Germany for its part in the war.
A victor's peace is peace enforced on terms of the victorious side, e.g., the Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of WWI that crippled Germany.
The Treaty of Versailles.
Versailles treaty was the peace treaty imposed on germany .