WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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tripled size of miltiary
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continued paying reparations
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occupied the Rhineland
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constructed the Anschluss
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Versailles (signed in 1919) and the 1921 London Schedule of Payments required Germany to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion [all values are contemporary, unless otherwise stated]) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -Allied victors took a punitive approach to Germany at the end of World War I. Intense negotiation resulted in the Treaty of Versailles’ “war guilt clause, ” which identified Germany as the sole responsible party for the war and forced it to pay reparations.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Rhineland was occupied and demilitarized, and German colonies were taken over by the new League of Nations. The German army was diminished to 100, 000 men and the country was forbidden to draft soldiers. Its weapons were largely confiscated, and its navy stripped of large vessels.
Detailed explanation-4: -Treaty of Versailles Terms Germany and the other defeated powers-Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey-were not represented at the Paris Peace Conference.