Treaty of Versailles

The treaty was a R.A.W deal for Germany

Reparations

-forced on Germany

-reparations were $33 Billion

Arms Reductions

-took German Land/limit German military

-army was reduced

-couldn’t manufacture or buy weapons, no air force

-German to return Alsace-Lorraine to France

-France gets control to Saar Basin (rich in coal deposits)

-Occupation of the Rhineland

-stripped of colonies

Warguilt Clause

Germany must sign “war blame” clause

What new nations were established?

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland

What nations did not receive independence?

Arabs were not granted independence Great Britain had promised, mandates were created over territories in the Middle East (Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria)