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TREATY OF VERSAILLES (Motivations & Aims (France / Georges Clemeanceau…

- - - - pay heavy reparations
      - accept total blame for the war
  - - - its own position of naval superiority was previously threatened by naval armaments
    - - Prevent the rise of communism
  - - - promised Italy control of Dalmatia, part of Germany's colonies in Asia and Africa and protectorate over Albania
      - wanted rewards promised in London Pact
- - - - One of the terms of the Treaty Of Versailles was the German territorial reductions, which included much of the land that belonged to Germany was redistributed among the Allied Powers.For example, Germany lost all her overseas colonies in Africa and the Asia Pacific, losing Alsace-Lorraine and the profits from the Saar coal region to France, having to give up territory between Germany and East Prussia to form the Polish Corridor and Germany was not allowed to reunite with Austria. This was a major blow to the Germans and their economy due to them losing large sources of income from their colonies and coal regions which caused them to feel bitter about the Treaty Of Versailles. -Danial Shahrom 3F and Ian 3E
- - - - not allowed to have tanks
      - not allowed to have submarines
      - not allowed to have an air force
      - size of navy limited to 15,000 men
      - size of army limited to 100,000 men
  - - - reparations demanded in 1921 were 269 million gold Reichsmarks (worth 9641 million kilograms of fine gold at that time)
  - - - Germany lost all her overseas colonies in Africa and the Asia Pacific
      - Germany lost Alsace-Lorraine and the profits from Saar coal region to France
      - Germany had to give up the territory between Germany and East Prussia to form the Polish Corridor to give Poland independent access to the sea
      - Germany not allowed to unite with Austria
  - - - This meant that Germany had to pay for all the damages that the war had created as they had lost the war and that was one of the punishments that it had entailed this lead to the German economy weakening and with the with the Weimar government accepting these terms of the treaty, this also led to Germany being humiliated among the other countries. The Weimar government tried to cover losses by borrowing money from the united states of America. However, when the American stock exchange crashed, many people went bankrupt overnight.