Treaty of Versailles-
What was it?
- Treaty to end WW1
Who was there?
-U.S, (Woodrow Wilson) Great Britain, France, Italy
What were the major points of Treaty of Versailles and other Treaties?
-The map of Europe changed (Austria Hungary became smaller), (New Countries) Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
-Territorial loss for Germany (Land was given to France, Belgium, Denmark, Czech, Russia, Poland)
-Germany's Military was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed to have tanks, No air force, reduced navy, DMZ was made between France and Germany, no troops were allowed there
-Germany had to pay $33 billion to the allies, (GB/France)
-Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate
-loss of industrial territory (hurt Germany's economy)
-League of nations (world wide peace keeping) was set up
-Germany had to take full responsibility for the war
What did the U.S. do with the treaty?
-U.S. never signed the Treaty of Versailles
- Congress didn't want to be involved with the league of nations because then we would be involved in war with European countries
- league of nations might be above our government and we didn't want someone telling us what we could do
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