Explain any five effects of the Treaty of Versailles over Germany.
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Class : 9th
Textbook : N.C.E.R.T
Chapter : 3. Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
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The following were the major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles:
● Germany lost possession of its overseas colonies.
● Germany lost a tenth of its population and 13 percent of its territories, 75 percent of its iron and 26 percent of coal resources were acquired by France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.
● Germany was demilitarized by allied powers to weaken its power.
●The resource rich Rhineland region was occupied by Allied powers for much of the 1920s.
The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:
(1) the surrender of all German colonies as League of Nations mandates;
(2) the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France;
(3) cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia,
(4) Poznania, parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to Poland;
(5) Danzig to become a free city;
(6) plebiscites to be held in northern Schleswig to settle the Danish-German frontier;
(7) occupation and special status for the Saar under French control;
(8) demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland;
(9) an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war.