You’ll have noticed that there are no aims here for Germany. This is because it had no say in the terms of the treaty of Versailles – it was a diktat that they had to accept. It couldn’t have protested against the terms because it was in ruins at the time.

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Main terms of the treaty of Versailles:

* Germany was required to pay 270 billion Gold Marks of reparations (equivalent to 100,000 tons of gold!).

*Germany lost all of its colonies.

* German armed forces limited to 6 battleships and 100,000 men (remember it was 8.5 million before the war!); the country was also banned from having an air force.

* Demilitarisation of the Rhineland – this created a piece of territory between France and Germany.

* Austria banned from uniting with Germany to prevent a strong German power.

*War guilt clause – Germany was formally made responsible for the war and all the damage it caused.

*Alsace-Lorraine was given to France; the French were also allowed to control the neighbouring Saar region for the next 15 years, which gave its coalfields to France and took them away from Germany.

*The Polish Corridor was created, which gave a large piece of German territory to Poland, splitting Germany in two in the process.