Germany: The Treaty of Versailles

Question 1

Key military terms:

Answer 1

• Army not to exceed 100,000
• No tanks, armoured cars, military aircraft, submarines or heavy artillery permitted
• No naval vessel to be greater than 10,000 tons
• Rhineland demilitarised

Question 2

Key Financial terms:

Answer 2

• Reparations fixed at £6.6 billion
• Coal to be mined in the Saar by France
• Cattle and sheep to be given to Belgium and France as reparations
• Ships over 1600 tons to be given up.
• Germany to build merchant ships to replace Allied ships by U-boats.

Question 3

Key Territorial terms:

Answer 3

• All colonies to be given to the Allied powers
• Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
• Eupen-Malmedy given to Belgium after a plebiscite
• Saar to be administered by the League of Nations
• Posen and west Prussia to Poland. Eastern upper Silesia to Poland after a plebiscite
• Danzig created a free city
• No union (Anschluss) with Austria

Question 4

Reparations

Answer 4

The war damages to be payed by Germany