This document is a brief but incredibly detailed document about the Treaty of Versailles. It includes all the military concerns including the reductions in navy and the reductions in German land with all the facts and figures that these places went to.
What were the main terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
Military clauses:
● Army reduced to 100,000 men-French concern they didn’t
want to be invaded for the third time
● Conscription was banned
● Navy limited to 36 ships in total, with only 6 battleships of
limited tonnage-British concern because they needed to be
safe by sea and have the largest navy.
● No air force-Britain aswell because they didn’t want them to
invade. Airforce was increasing in power didn’t want
Germany to stay as a large power. America president was a
peaceful idealist,
● No submarines-British problem-they wanted to control the
seas.
● No armoured vehicles- France would struggle to defend
against tanks so they don’t want it
● Rhineland was to be demilitarised- France problem due to it
being close to Germany, almost neutral grounds.
Territorial Clauses
● Memel went to Lithuania
● West Prussia and Posen went to Poland to form the Polish
corridor
● Upper Silesia went to Poland (after a plebiscite)- plebiscite
was a referendum
● Alsace Lorraine was returned to France
● Eupen and Malmedy went to Belgium
● Northern Schleswig went to Denmark (after a plebiscite)
● Loss of all colonies
● Anschluss was forbidden
● Danzig to become a ‘free city’ administered by the League of
Nations.
Economic Clauses
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