What is the Treaty of Versailles?
- Treaty that ended WWI
Major points of the Treaty of Versailles and other treaties
- Land taken from Germany
- given to France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
- Military
- German army reduced to 100,000 men and not allowed tanks
- Germany not allowed an airforce
- Only allowed 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- west of the Rhineland and 50 kms east of the River Rhine was made into a demilitarized zone
- no German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone
- the Allies kept an army of occupation on the west bank of the Rhine for 15 years to enforce rule
- Financial
- loss of vital industrial territory- severe blow to German economy
- coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular was vital economic loss
- required to pay $33 billion to Allies
- forbidden to unite with Austria
- loss of vital industrial territory- severe blow to German economy
- General
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting war
- Clause 231 of infamous "War Guilt Clause"
- League of Nations established to maintain world peace
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting war
- New Countries established
- Finland
- Estonia
- Lithuania
- Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovakia
Who was there?
- United States, Great Britain, France, Italy
What did the United States do with it?
- Never signed Treaty of Versailles or joined the League of Nations
- congress concerned about League of Nations because they thought they were going to be pulled into European wars constantly
- thought the League of Nations would be "Government" and would dictate when we were able to go to war
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