Treaty of Versailles:

Question 1

What were the five areas imposed on Germany after the ToV?

Answer 1

• War Guilt Clause
• German Territories and colonies
• Germany’s armed forces
• League of nations

Question 2

What was the amount of the reparations set as?

Answer 2

£6,600 million

- They finished paying this bill in 1984

Question 3

What was the War guilt clause?

Answer 3

An article that made Germany accept blame for the beginning of the war.

Question 4

What were the restrictions set on the armed forces?

Answer 4

• The army was limited to 100,000 men
• Conscription was banned
• No armoured vehicles, submarines or aircraft.
• The navy could have only six battleships
• The Rhineland became a demilitarised zone - This was the border between Germany and France.

Question 5

What were the aims of the League of Nations?

Answer 5

• Was set up as an international police force

- Germany was not invited to join the league until it had shown that it was a peace-loving country.

Question 6

What land was taken away from Germany?

Answer 6

• West Prussia and Posen, and Upper Silesia, both given to Poland
• Alsace- Lorraine, was given to France
• North Schleswig, was given to Denmark after a plebiscite

Question 7

Name some of the ways Germans criticised the ToV

Answer 7

• German territories
• War Guilt and reparations
• Disarmament
• The Fourteen Points and the League of Nations

Question 8

How much of German territories were lost?

Answer 8

• 10 per cent of its land in Europe
• All of its Overseas colonies
  12. 5 per cent of its population
• 16 per cent of its coalfields and almost half of its iron and steel industry.

Question 9

How was Disarmanement criticised in Germany?

Answer 9

• They were bitter because none of the allies were being asked or forced to disarm in the same way.
• Also, an army of 100,000 was very small for a country of Germany’s size and the army was a symbol of German pride.

Question 10

What happend to the Ruhr?

Answer 10

• In 1922 nothing was paid. French and Belgian soldiers entered the Ruhr and took whatever was owed to them.
• This was legal under the terms of the ToV.
• because Germany ordered the workers to go on strike so that they were not producing anything for the french to take.
• The French killed 100 workers and expelled 100,000 protesters from the region.