HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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United Nations Charter
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Treaty of Portsmouth
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Atlantic Charter
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Treaty of Versailles
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty at most amounts to no more than an acceptance by Germany of the affirmance by the Allied and Associated Governments of Germany’s responsibility for all loss and damage suffered as a consequence of the war-a moral responsibility.
Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps the most humiliating portion of the treaty for defeated Germany was Article 231, commonly known as the “War Guilt Clause, ‘’ which forced the German nation to accept complete responsibility for initiating World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.