Question

THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE & TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Answer 1

Answer:

1. the Treaty of Versailles.

2. The Great War and the war to end all wars.

3. Years of fighting on two fronts and shortages caused by the British blockade of Germany finally crushed the Central Powers ability and will to fight.

4. Russia withdrew from the war early in 1917 because of massive losses and unrest at home. Many of the Allies saw this as a betrayal and did not feel that Russia deserved a seat at the conference.

5. To “give up”.

6. France and Poland.  

Poland did not exist prior to World War 1

7.

• German compulsory military service is abolished.
• Germany is not allowed to have tanks, airplanes, submarines, large warships and poison gas.
• For 15 years, Germany cannot station troops along the border of the Rhine River.
• Germany’s army cannot exceed 100,000 men.
• Germany’s navy cannot exceed 15,000 men.

8.

• Austria has to cede South-Tirol to Italy.
• Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) has to cede all foreign possessions. England gets Iraq, Palestine and Trans-Jordan. France gets Syria and Lebanon.

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