WORLD HISTORY

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: -Following World War II the Allies dissolved the Wehrmacht with all its branches on 20 August 1946.

Detailed explanation-3: -Limits on Arms, Forces and Equipment 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-4: -Germany’s military power was reduced. Germany was not allowed to have submarines or an air force. It could have an army of only 100, 000 men and a navy of only 6 ships, and it was not allowed to place any troops in the Rhineland. Germany had to pay £6, 600 million ‘reparations’ for damage done.

Detailed explanation-5: -The collapse of the Imperial German Army occurred in the latter half of 1918 and led to the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Armistice and the eventual end of World War I following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Detailed explanation-6: -Germany’s armed forces were considerable weakened by the Treaty of Versailles. They had to reduce the army to 100, 000 men, with no conscription. They were not allowed to have an airforce or any armoured vehicles live tanks. The navy was reduced to 6 ships and no submarines.