The French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was the most vehement in terms of reprisals against Germany, given the enormous human and material losses produced on French soil, where by the German invasion had spent much of the war.
Because of the treaty, Germany considerably reduced its European territory from 540,766 km² (1910) before the war, to 468,787 km² (1925) after the war. In addition, it was forced to give up all its colonial empire, which was divided among the winning nations (mainly between the United Kingdom and France).
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• He had no territorial claims in Europe but he aspired to win colonies in Africa and Asia.
• He wanted the destruction of the German naval fleet.
• I did not want to sink Germany so as not to strengthen France.
• He also asked for compensation.
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• Recovery of Alsace-Lorraine.
• Occupying the western part of the Rhine militarily and creating an independent state in the Rhineland.
• Weaken militarily and definitely Germany. (Opposition to the union of Germany and Austria)
• Territorial profits and indemnities.
An estimated 50,000 slaves escaped as a direct impact of <span>The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of hiding places and secret routes that enabled African-American slaves to escape. It led them to either Canada or a free state. This network was not literally an "underground railroad" but a resistance that was hidden from public knowledge. </span>
Well the first European explore to land in the Americas was Christopher Columbus. But Vikings found the Americas first, Primarily Iceland and Greenland
After some early trading expeditions the first Dutch settlement was founded in 1615 fort Nassau on castle island along the hudson near present day Albany. The settlement served mostly as an outpost for trading in fur with the native lenape tribespeople but was later REPLACED BY FORT ORANGE.
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Because he made a trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain.He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia.He didn't but stumbled upon the Americas.