WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By the terms of the final treaty, signed on May 10, 1871, at Frankfurt am Main, Germany annexed the French provinces of Alsace (excluding Belfort) and Lorraine; the French were also ordered to pay an indemnity of five billion francs.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the Franco-Prussian War, France owed Germany an indemnity of 5 billion francs. Under the Treaty of Frankfurt, France agreed to pay this amount by 1 March 1875.

Detailed explanation-3: -After France’s defeat in the 1871 Franco-Prussian War, the country was billed five billion francs for peace. This ‘indemnity’ was intended to cripple the country, but it failed.

Detailed explanation-4: -The reparations paid by the French after the Napoleonic wars and the Franco-Prussian War were two of the largest successful coerced transfers, contrasting other reparations cases and revealing how major transfers were effected.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Treaty of Versailles of 1871 ended the Franco-Prussian War and was signed by Adolphe Thiers of the Third French Republic and Otto von Bismarck of the newly-formed German Empire on 26 February 1871.