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THE FINAL END
Treaty of Versailles
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Articles
Articles 159-163
Reduced the size of the German army to just 100,000
Articles 164-172
Disarmed the German military, limiting the number of weapons and artillery
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Articles 198-202
Prohibited Germany from having an air force, except for up to 100 seaplanes to work in minesweeping operations.
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Article 231
Commonly called the war guilt clause, required Germany to accept responsibility for causing “all the loss and damage”
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Reactions
Germany
Their reactions were very bad. There were protests all over the country. They lost the 10% of its land, all its overseas colonies, 12.5% of its population, 16% of its coal and 48% of its iron industry.
France
They approved the reparations that Germany had to pay, as also the demilitarization in Germany's borders with France
United States
They thought that the Treaty was unfair with Germany, and that France and Great Britain were making themeselves rich Germany's expense.
Italy
They were not hostile towards Germany, they only wanted to ensure the partition of the Habsburg Empire.
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Territory changes
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Poland was restored and acquired new territory, as also Greece, Italy, and Romania.
Germany
Handed Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, returned Alsace and Lorraine to France and ceded all of its overseas colonies in China, Pacific and Africa.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania won independence from Russia.
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Purpose
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Articulated the compromises reached at the Paris peace Conference and included the planned formation of the League of Nations.
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Paris Peace Conference
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Germany and the other defeated powers, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, were not represented at the conference
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