Title: Treaty of Versailles - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Treaty of Versailles
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Content: The British economist John Maynard Keynes thought that it was a great mistake to force such harsh measures on the German people, but his advice was ignored. Germany set up the democratic Weimar Republic, but it suffered an economic collapse that went with huge inflation of its currency, the Reichsmark . Adolf Hitler became the German chancellor and got rid of the treaty. His actions would eventually lead to World War II . Contents
1 Terms
2 Long-term problems
3 References
4 Other websites
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Germany 1919 map according Versailles Treaty
Germany had to give back Alsace-Lorraine. France was still embarrassed that Germany had been taken during the Franco-Prussian War. The French also made Germany take its troops out of the Rhineland, the long stretch of land on Germany's border with France with the Rhine River, which was important since Germany had many factories and businesses there. If German troops returned the Rhineland, the treaty allowed the French were to invade Germany. Germany also had to give parts to Poland, a country made out of Russian and Austrian parts and the Polish and Lithuanian people who lived in them. Poland had been a big kingdom a few hundred years earlier, but Austria, Prussia and Russia, during the Partitions of Poland, taken parts of the kingdom and ended its existence.