Question

Mention any three of the terms of the Term of Versailles

Answer 1

Hint: The Versailles Treaty was the most significant of the peace treaties that brought an end to World War I. The Treaty ended Germany's state of war with the Allied Powers.

Complete answer:
The Versailles Treaty was concluded in Versailles on 28 June 1919, precisely five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which had led directly to war. Separate treaties were signed by the other Central Powers on the German side. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, the conclusion of the peace treaty took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference. On 21 October 1919, the treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations.

The principal terms of the Treaty of Versailles were:
(1) the surrender of all German colonies as ordered by the League of Nations;
(2) to bring Alsace-Lorraine back to France;
(3) Eupen-move Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the district of Hultschin to Czechoslovakia,
(4) Poznania, Poland, portions of Eastern Prussia and Upper Silesia;
(5) Transforming Danzig into a free city;
(6) plebiscites to be held to define the Danish-German border in northern Schleswig;
(7) occupation and special status for the French-controlled Saar;
(8) demilitarisation of the Rhineland and fifteen-year occupation;
(9) an acceptance of the responsibility of Germany in starting the war.

Note:
 In Germany, the Treaty generated much anger that Adolf Hitler exploited in his rise to power at the helm of Nazi Germany. The confidence in the stab-in-the-back story, which held that the German army had not lost the war and was humiliated by the Weimar Republic, which negotiated an unwanted surrender, was essential to this.