Treaty of Versailles

Major Provisions

 

League of Nations

Territorial Losses

Military Restrictions

War Guilt

*  International peace organization; membership to include Allied war powers and 32 Allied and neutral nations

 

*   Germany and Russia excluded

*     Germany returns Alsace-Lorraine to France; French border extended to the west bank of the Rhine River

 

*     Germany surrenders all of its overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific

*  Limit set on the size of the German army

 

*    Germany prohibited from importing or manufacturing weapons or war material

 

*     Germany forbidden to build or buy submarines or have an air force

*   Sole responsibility for the war placed on Germany’s shoulders

 

*    Germany forced to pay the Allies $33 billion in reparations over 30 years