AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Give up all its colonies/foreign territories.
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Pay reparations to the Allies for what the war cost.
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Reduce its military.
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Give up its capital city of Berlin and make it a “free city” that wasn’t part of any country.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. It also called for the creation of the League of Nations, an institution that President Woodrow Wilson strongly supported and had originally outlined in his Fourteen Points address.
Detailed explanation-2: -Yet at the same time, Germany was not allowed to join the League of Nations – an insult. Germany had to pay £6, 600 million ‘reparations’, a huge sum which Germans felt was just designed to destroy their economy and starve their children.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.