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Terms of the Versailles Treaty of 1919.
The Treaty of Versailles. The 5 treaties signed in Paris (1918) were collectively called the “treaty of Versailles”
Terms of the Versailles Treaty of 1919.
a) The treaty declared Germany an aggressor who was supposed to pay reparations and whose
military capability was to be reduced.
b) She lost all her colonial passions with the African colonies being taken from her and put under supervision of the League of Nations.
c) Germany was totally disarmed and only allowed to retain a force of 100,000 soldiers and her navy was disbanded.
d) Germany’s population and size was reduced as Austria, with a large German population was allowed to remain independent.