The Versailles Treaty and military forces

• Army limited to 100,000
• Navy limited to 6 battleships, 6 cruisers, 12 destroyers, 12 torpedo boats and no

  submarines.
• No air force allowed
• No military allowed in the land bordering France (the Rhineland)
• Germans believed that the army had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by politicians, forcing them to surrender. Many felt Germany could still have won the war.