Impact Of The Treat Of Versailles Flashcards
Disarmament
No Air Force and small navy (reduce pride)
Forbidden to use tanks or gas
Limit German army to 100,000 and no conscription
Dismantle Rhineland fortifications
Surrender all heavy weapons
War Guilt
Handed over all industry or investments (hurt economy as it reduced Germany’s ability to pay reparations)
Liable to pay reparations to allied (crippled economy)
Had to accept for responsibility for starting WW1 (unfair)
The Rhineland
Permanently demilitarised
Allied army of occupation
Territorial losses
Loss of 75% of its Iron ore, 68% Zinc, 26% coal and 15% of arable land
German colonies under LoN control
Removed up to 70,000Km2 or 13% of German land
The Saarland
Important Coal rich area of Germany
Under LoN control for 15 years
Supply France, Belgium and Italy with feee coal as reparations
France allowed to exploit these coal mines p
Other reasons
Kaiser and others on trial for war crimes
Germany excluded from the League of Nations
Austria forbidden to unite with Germany
Germans branded the ToV as what
A Diktat or dictated peace
Wasn’t as harsh as what?
German treatment of Russia in the Treaty of Brest-Lilovsk
Political crisis caused by ToV?
June 1919 saw Chancellor Scheidemann resign instead of sign the ToV
Bauer signed anyway as the new Chancellor
Stab in the back myth and name for them?
November Criminals, who stabbed Germany in the back by agreeing to the terms despite the military not being defeated
Reaction of Britain to ToV
Public satisfied by Germany’s humiliation but PM Lloyd George nursed doubts of it being too harsh. Keynes argues the reparations far too high
French reaction to ToV
saw the treaty as too lenient and blamed President Clemenceau
Not peace but a twenty year armistice
US reaction to ToV
Saw it as unfair and the US congress refused to agree to it. Didn’t join LoN and withdrew from European affairs
