The treaty of Versailles and its impact
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- Treaty of versailles
- The stab in the back myth
- novemeber 1919
- November criminals were responsible for the army stabbing them in the back
- Hindenburg claimed it was the Jews, pacifists and socialists
- Attitudes
- French and Britons believed the terms were too soft for the repercussions of the war
- Germans convinced they fought a war of self dfence and didnt accept the war guilt clause
- Republicans had no choice but to agree which led them to be associated with defeat and humiliation
- despite the principle of self determination most germans now under foreign rule
- Terms of the treaty
- Exclusion from the league of nations
- to try to preserve peace for the future
- Military
- limited to 100,000 men
- no submarines,tanks or battleships
- Reparations
- war guilt clause
- Territorial
- lost all its colonies
- forbidden to unite with austria
- lost 13.5% of its territory
- Exclusion from the league of nations
- Peace settlement
- The 14 points
- president wilson in january 1918 as a basis for the peace talsks
- jan 1919 allied leaders met in paris
- Germany not allowed to participate in negotiations
- Germany had no choice but to agree to the terms
- The 14 points
- The stab in the back myth
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