USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
An important town on the French/German border:

(A) Rhineland

(B) Ruhr

(C) Brest-Litovsk

(D) ** Alsace Lorraine

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Strasbourg is situated at the eastern border of France with Germany.

Concept note-2: -The loss of Alsace-Lorraine was a major cause of anti-German feeling in France in the period from 1871 to 1914. France also suffered economically from the loss of Alsace-Lorraine’s valuable iron ore deposits, iron-and steelmaking plants, and other industries to Germany.

Concept note-3: -The German Empire regained the area of Alsace-Lorraine, added to it the department of Moselle and a few arrondissements (subdivisions) of the department of Meurthe, and gave the region the German name Elsaß-Lothringen.