Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Treaty of Versailles
- Result of the Paris Peace Conference
- Terms
- War Guilt
- £6.6bn reparations
- Germany Territories
- Colonies became
League-controlled
mandates
- East Prussia (Polish Corridor) to Poland
- Saarland run by League for 15 years
- Alsace Lorraine to France
- 10% land lost overall
- Restriction of Germany's armed forces
- 100,000 men
- Rhineland demilitarised
- No submarines or aircraft
- 6 battleships
- Union with Austria banned
- League of Nations formed
- Participants
- France
- Georges Clemenceau
- Wanted to cripple Germany
- Wanted to remove Germany
as a threat forever
- UK
- Lloyd George
- Pragmatist
- Occupied the middle ground
- Wanted to downsize Germany's navy
- Germany was Britain's second largest trade partner pre-war
- USA
- Woodrow Wilson
- Idealist
- Fourteen Points
- Published in January 1918
- Disarmament
Self-determination
League of Nations
Free Trade
- Most lenient towards
the Germans
- Feared the consequences of a tough treaty
- 2 German officials to sign
- Diktat
- 28 June 1918
- German Reaction
- General Opposition
- War Guilt ought
to be shared
- Reparations were crippling
- Disarmament was
humiliating and a double
standard
- Uprisings
- Spartacist Uprising
- Kapp Putsch