Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Treaty of Versailles
- The Terms of the Treaty
- Territorial
- Rhineland was demilitarised
- Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
- Saar given to France for 15 years
- All Germany's colonies taken and given
to Britain and France as 'mandates'
- Forbidden to unite with Austria
- Polish corridor given to Poland
- Military
- Army restricted to 100,000 men
- Navy restricted to 6 battleships - no submarines
- Germany not allowed an airforce
- Financial and Economic
- Pay reparations - 132 billion gold marks
- Article 231 - Germany was forced to
take all the blame for the war
- The Big Three
- Lloyd George
- A 'just' peace that would be tough
enough to please the electors who
wanted to 'make Germany pay', but
would leave Germany strong enough to
trade.
- Land for Britain's empire.
- To safeguard Britain's naval supremacy.
- Clemençeau
- Revenge and to punish Germany.
- To return Alsace-Lorraine to France.
- No League of Nations.
- An independent Rhineland.
- Huge reparations.
- To disband the German army so
that Germany would never be
strong enough to attack France
again.
- Wilson
- To end war by
creating a League of
Nations based on his
Fourteen Points.
- To ensure Germany was not destroyed.
- Not to blame Germany
for the war - he hated
the Guilt Clause.
- Opinions on the Treaty
- Germans
- Germany hated everything
because it made them pay
- British
- Hated everything apart from the
League of Nations and the
War-Guilt clause
- French
- Liked everything apart from the
League of Nations and Germany
loosing land
- American
- Hated all of the Treaty