Question

What were the terms of Versailles treaty? What was the main objective of this treaty?

Answer 1

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1918, at the end of World War I. The Congress of Vienna was established in 1815.

The main objective of the Treaty was to punish Germany and that Germany should take full responsibility for the damage caused during World War I Main features of the treaty were:

1. Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population and 13 per cent of its territories.
2. It also lost 75 per cent of its iron and 26 per cent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.
3. The Allied Powers demilitarised Germany to weaken its power.
4. Germany was forced to pay compensation amounting to £6 billion.
5. The Allied armies also occupied the resource-rich Rhineland for much of the 1920s.