Unit+VI+Notes

Treaty of Versailles

 * Signed June 28th, 1919.
 * Germany forced to pay $33 billion dollars in reparations over 30 years.
 * War guilt clause - All blame for WWI placed on the shoulders of Germany.
 * Germany France Alsace-Lorraine back
 * Germany gives up all overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific.
 * Germany is prohibited from building or buying subs, cannot have an air force, and the army size was vastly reduced.
 * The League of Nations was created to bring peace to Europe (United States did not join).

Results

 * Germany and Russia feel cheated by peace settlement.
 * The United States sinks back into Isolationism
 * Germany is resentful which sets the stage for what comes next.....