Preserve it's small armies while doing enough damage to erode the Union's will to fight
The correct answer here is to establish Germany's war guilt.
With this article, it is established clearly that the war was Germany's fault, and of her allies. Germany accepted this. What all of this means is that now as the both guilty and losing party Germany had to accept things the Allies demanded of her. The Allies had all the power in this negotiations.
The main point was to <span>restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the </span><span>Senate</span>
It has led to the invasion and occupation of countries suspected of supporting terrorists.