WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The German army was to be limited to 100, 000 men. Conscription was forbidden. The treaty restricted the Navy to vessels under 10, 000 tons, with a ban on the acquisition or maintenance of a submarine fleet. Germany was forbidden to maintain an air force.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parts II and III of the Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany’s territorial losses as a result of the First World War. In mainland Europe, Germany’s borders shrank, reducing the country’s size by approximately 65, 000 square kilometers, and roughly 7 million people (13 and 12 percent of their respective totals).