USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Which of the following was a punishment put on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles? Click all that apply

(A) Made them form an alliance

(B) ** Made them get rid of some of their territory

(C) ** Made them decrease their military

(D) ** Made them pay billions in reparations

(E) Made them increase their military for protection

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The treaty forced Germany to disarm, to make territorial concessions, and to pay reparations to the Allied powers in the staggering amount of $5 billion.

Concept note-2: -The document stripped Germany of 13 percent of its territory and one tenth of its population. The Rhineland was occupied and demilitarized, and German colonies were taken over by the new League of Nations. The German army was diminished to 100, 000 men and the country was forbidden to draft soldiers.

Concept note-3: -The Treaty of Versailles Punished Defeated Germany With These Provisions. Some disarmed the German military, while others stripped the defeated nation of territory, population and economic resources, and forced it to admit responsibility for the war and agree to pay reparations.

Concept note-4: -Germany started making reparations payments to Holocaust survivors back in the 1950s, and continues making payments today.

Concept note-5: -The Versailles Treaty forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all of its overseas colonies in China, Pacific and Africa to the Allied nations.