Peace Treaty of Versailles


 
 
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Peace Treaty of Versailles

Peace Treaty of Versailles: This republic was not received well by its own people because they were forced to accept terms after Germany’s defeat at the end of the First World War. The Peace Treaty at Versailles with the Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace. By signing the Peace Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost its overseas colonies. 

The Treaty of Versailles sowed the seeds of the second world war :

  • Financially , Germany suffered because the new Weimar Republic was made to pay compensation to the allies for the war amounting to 6 euro billion .
  • Germany lost its overseas colonies , as they were annexed and distributed among the allied powers.
  • Germany was demilitarised to weaken its power.
  • Germany lost a tenth of its population , 13 percent 26 percent of its coal to France , Poland Denmark and Lithuania.
  • The allied armies occupied the resource- rich Rhineland for much of the 1920s . all these measure humiliated the germans and also hitler . to take revenge , Hitler annexed power in Germany and waged war against the allies thus sowing the seeds of the second world war.
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