USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
How many soldiers were Germany allow in their army?

(A) ** 100, 000

(B) 500, 000

(C) 1, 000, 000

(D) They weren’t allowed any soldiers.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The German army was restricted to 100, 000 men; the general staff was eliminated; the manufacture of armoured cars, tanks, submarines, airplanes, and poison gas was forbidden; and only a small number of specified factories could make weapons or munitions.

Concept note-2: -The Kaiser Wilhelm II was the official Commander-in-Chief, but the Army chief of staff, Helmuth von Moltke was the effective leader in the field. Moltke was followed in this post by Erich von Falkenhayn (1914-16) and Paul von Hindenburg (1916-18). The German Army in 1914 comprised 25 corps (700, 000 men).

Concept note-3: -Soldier numbers in the German Federal Armed Forces 2022, by type of service. As of December 2022, 56, 729 professional soldiers served in the German Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).