The Versailles Treaty
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- Created on: 02-05-15 14:12
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- The Versailles Treaty
- The Treaty was Signed in June 1919
- The results of this treaty were severe
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- G - Guilt; Germany had to accept complete blame for the war - Article 231
- A - Armaments; Germany's forces were reduced to 100,000 men, only volunteers, no armored vehicles, aircraft or submarines, and only 6 warships
- R - Reparations; Germany was ordered to pay £6.6 billion - payments for the damaged caused by the war. This amount was agreed in 1921 but was changed later
- G- German Territories; Germany lost it's territories. Areas around the world that used to belong to Germany were now known as mandates and were run by the League of Nations
- L - League of Nations; The LoN was set up to keep world peace.
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- Reactions to the Treaty
- some people thought the Treaty was fair
- Some people thought the Treaty was fair because the war had caused so much death and damage
- they thought Germany had to be made weaker so it couldn't go to war again
- people in France and Britain wanted revenge - politicians listened to them so that they could stay in power
- Some said the Treaty was too harsh
- Germans were left weak and resentful - this could lead to anger and cause future trouble, like another war
- The treaty wouldn't help rebuild European trade and wealth
- Germany couldn't afford reparations, many of the new countries were poor
- The peacemakers faced problems and pressure from the people at home
- some people thought the Treaty was fair
- Germany hated the Treaty of Versailles
- Germany Couldn't afford erpairations
- Germany lost industrial areas and could not rebuild
- Germany lost pride without its armed forces
- Germany didn't accept defeat
- Germany didn't accept guilt for starting the war.
- Germany suffered an economic crisis
- Germany lost olonies
- German people now often lived under foreign rule in new countries
- Problems were building up for the future
- Europe couldn't recover while countries like Germany remained poor
- self-determination would be difficult ion new countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia
- many people from different nationalities had been thrown together as an artificial country.
- Germn anger would lad to trouble in the future. The Germans called the treaty a 'Diktat' - they had no choice about accepting it
- Without Germany, Russia or the USA in the League of Nations it would be hard to keep the peace.
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