AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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Detailed explanation-1: -It limited the German Army and Navy in size, and allowed for the trial of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a number of other high-ranking German officials as war criminals. Under the terms of Article 231 of the Treaty, the Germans accepted responsibility for the war and the liability to pay financial reparations to the Allies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Germans, who had put great faith in U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s notion of a so-called peace without victory and had pointed to his famous Fourteen Points as the basis upon which they sought peace in November 1918, were greatly angered and disillusioned by the treaty.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ended World War 1, but it also designed our post-war future. It redrew the map of the world; partitioned and created countries; and ushered in a new era of international relations, creating the first “world organisation” – the League of Nations.