WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by mobilizing his army into this demilitarized zone located between France and Germany.
A
Ardennes
B
Sudetenland
C
Normandy
D
Rhineland
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Provisions of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles forbade Germany (defeated in World War I) to station armed forces in a demilitarized zone in the Rhineland-a region in western Germany bordering France, Belgium, and part of the Netherlands. The treaty stipulated that Allied forces-including US troops-would occupy the region.

Detailed explanation-2: -Following World War I, the Treaty of Versailles (1918) declared Danzig to be a free city administered by Poland and the League of Nations. Germany resented the loss of this largely German city. Hitler was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Versailles treaty.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Rhineland served as a demilitarized zone between France and Germany during the inter-war years of the 1920s and early 1930s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rhineland-Palatinate is situated in central south-west of Germany, it borders the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia in north, Hesse in east and Baden-Württemberg in south-east, it surrounds the federal state of Saarland and it shares international borders with France, Luxembourg and Belgium.

There is 1 question to complete.