The Terms

• Guilt

  • Clause 231, accept the blame for the causing all the loss and damage
• G - Guilt

  A - Armed forces

  R - Reparations

  G - Germany losing territory

  L - League of Nations

  E - Extra points
• Armed forces

  • 100,000 men in army, no conscription (drafting), no air forces, no submarine, only 6 battle ships, Rhineland demilitarized
• Reparations

  • have to pay 6,600 million for damages, they had time to pay untill 1984
  • crippled their economy and caused inflation
• Germany lost territory

  • Alsace lorraine given back to France
  • Coal fields take to France for 15 years
  • All German colonies made mandate of League of Nations and given
  • away to other countries aka no more resources
  • lost Danzig aka no more ports
• League of Nations

  • set up as a way of nations to settle disputes
  • Germany not allowed in League of Nations
• • Extra points
  • forbade anschluss between Germany & Austria
• Germany lost:

  • 10% of land
  • All colonies
  • 12% of population
  • 16% of coal fields
  • half of iron and steel industries
  • most of its army and navy
  • all its air force