AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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Question
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Limited to 100, 000 men
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Increased to 100, 000 men
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Nothing
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Not allowed to go beyond 50, 000 men
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Following the German defeat in World War I and the end of the German Empire, the main army was dissolved.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty restricted the Germans’ armed forces to only 100, 000 men in the army, no submarines or aeroplanes, and only six battleships. In addition, conscription was banned (soldiers had to be volunteers). The idea was to reduce Germany’s armed forces to a size where they could never endanger the countries round about.