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TREATY OF VERSAILLES - Coggle Diagram
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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3) GERMAN DISARMAMENT
Army limited to 100,000 men.
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Not allowed:
- Armoured vehicles.
- Submarines.
- Airforce.
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Reason:
- German disarmament → No future threat, especially to France.
2) REPARATIONS
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Allies needed to cover war cost, couldn't raise taxes → social unrest domestically.
Reasons:
- France:
- 1.3 mil casualties.
- 2.8 mil wounded.
- Germany:
- Infrastructure untouched.
Finance Minister (F) demanded max payment; receive 55% of payments.
Reasons: Britain
- Believed Germany couldn't pay for new army if it had to pay ↑ reparations.
- Received 25% of payments- enough money for Dominions. - Didn't want to paralyse German economy → trade.
4) TERRITORIES
Overall, lost... :
- 10% of its land.
- All its overseas colonies.
- 12.5% of its population.
- 16% of its coal.
- 48% of its iron industry.
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Saarland
- Ethnically German so should be Germany's under 14 points.
- Coal mines used by F for 15 years.
- Plebiscite: F or G → 1935 voted G.
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5) GERMAN COLONIES
Britain, France, South Africa: Awarded most of African colonies.
- German East Africa.
- German Southwest Africa.
- Togo.
NZ, AUS, Japan: Pacific Islands.
- Marshalls.
- Carolines.
- Papua.
Japan:
- Shandong.
- Promised to return Shandong to China in 1922.