GERMANY

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  • Treaty of Versailles:

    key terms:
    • Blame: article 231 - Germany accepted full responsibility for starting WW1
    • Reparations: £6.6 billion to be paid to the Allies
    • military Restrictions: Army limited to 100,000 soldiers; no tanks, submarines, or air force
    • Territorial losses: lost colonies, Alsace-Lorraine to France, Saarland under League of Nations control
    • IMPACT ON GERMANY:
    • economic crisis: hyperinflation (1923) caused by reparations
    • political instability: uprisings: Spartacists Revolt (1919), Kapp Putsch (1920)
    • humiliation: Many Germans viewed the treaty as a 'Diktat' (dictated peace)