Question

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION
'The peace treaty of Versailles with Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace'. Explain this statement.

Answer 1

(i) As a result of this treaty Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 per cent of its territories, 75 per cent of its iron and 26 per cent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.
(ii)The Allied Powers demilitarised Germany to weaken its power.
(iii)The War Guilt Clause held Germany responsible for the war and damages the allied countries suffered. Germany was forced to pay the compensation amounting to 6 billion.
(iv)The Allied armies also occupied the resource-rich Rhineland for much of the 1920s.