USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
The Treaty stated that Germany could only keep ____ soldiers.

(A) 10, 000

(B) ** 100, 000

(C) 1, 000, 000

(D) 10, 000, 000

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Articles 159-163 reduced the size of the German army, which had reached 1.9 million troops during World War I, to just 100, 000, and mandated that the force “shall be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of order within the territory and to the control of the frontiers.”

Concept note-2: -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-3: -Following the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, firm restrictions were placed on the German military, most notably, the entire army was restricted to just 100, 000 men, while the navy was reduced to just 15, 000 men.

Concept note-4: -The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 at the Palace of Versailles in Paris at the end of World War I, codified peace terms between Germany and the victorious Allies.

Concept note-5: -The Treaty of Versailles was a peace document signed between Imperial Germany and the Allied Powers on 28th June 1919. The treaty ended the state of war that had existed between Germany and the Allies from 1914 and brought World War I to an end.