Terms ToV

• The League of Nations was set up after World War I. Germany was not allowed to join until it showed that it was a peace-loving country
• Germany had to pay £6600 million to the Allies after World War I.
• Germany agreed to take the blame for the war in the War Guilt Clause - Article 231 after World War I.
• The German Army could have only 100000 soldiers, conscription was banned as were submarines, aeroplanes and armoured vehicles after World War I.
• Germany was allowed to have 6 battleships after World War I.
• The Rhineland had to be de-militarised after World War I.
• Germany's overseas empire was taken away. Former German colonies, such as Cameroon, became mandates controlled by the League of Nations, which basically meant that France and Britain controlled them.
• Germany had to give over all their non-European colonies
• Germany had to give Alsace-Lorraine to France
• Germany had to give the Saar Land to the League of Nations for 15 years which then would have a plebiscite
• Germany had to give the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia
• Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria after World War I (Anschluss).
• Germany lost 10% of its land in Europe
• Germany lost 12.5% of its population
• Germany lost 16% of its coalfields and almost half of its iron and steel industry
• Danzig was a German city that was taken from them in the Treaty of Versailles and given to Poland so that they could have a sea port.