Alsace-Lorraine

battleships. Forcing people to join the army was banned they had to volunteer. Germany lost 10% of its land, 12% of its population, 16% of its coalfields and half its steel and iron industry. The Saar coalfields were given to France for 15 years. Alsace-Lorraine was given back to France, Malmedy was given to Belgium. Memal was given to Lithuania, North Schleswig was given to Denmark. West Prussia and Upper Silesia were given to Poland. Danzig was made a ‘free city’. In addition, germany was not…

countries not punish Germany. Due to the fact that Germany puts so much money into building up their army and producing supplies needed, they couldn’t afford to pay off damages caused by their bombings on towns. I have the goal to keep Austria and Alsace-Lorraine because Germany believes that they should control the lands that they gained from the war. One of the reasons that Germany was involved in WWI was because they wanted to expand their empire. Since Germany successfully captured those…

Following the First World War, the victorious nations divided large amounts of the German Empire between them. Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France, Czechoslovakia gained land from Germany. Belgium too received a small slice of German territory in the east. German territories in Africa were invaded by British, French, Belgian, and South African military forces during…

The Allies forced Germany to sign it. It required Germany to pay for all damage caused by the war to the other nations. Britain joined the war because it would make them a powerful nation. France was in the war as well because they wanted the Alsace-Lorraine. Many other nations such as Italy, Japan, and China joined for this reason because they wanted to gain back territories they lost in the past. Nationalism sparked many nations into the war because it was a competition and trying to receive…

Treaty of Versailles Malak Al-Nuaimi B6 The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. At the end of World War I (1914-1918), victorious Allied Powers negotiated a series of peace treaties to impose on the defeated Central Powers. They arranged different treaties with Austria and Hungary, after the dissolution of Austro-Hungarian…

Many aspects of the treaty were extremely harsh towards Germany. The military clauses were the harshest and most damaging clauses of them all, and were greatly disapproved by Germany. Before the start of the Great war Germany was an extremely militaristic country, the Kaiser was militaristic and anybody of power were all involved in the military in some points of their lives. Having built a society on Militarism the military clauses were the hardest of all the clauses for the germans to accept…

Versailles, which is the agreement that was signed with France, Britain and America. This stated that Germany has to pay reparations because of the cause of the war. They also had to cut their army, armaments. Then they lost land, including Alsace-Lorraine to France. This had a huge impact on their economy as well as their beliefs. This is why most people in Germany believed in Hitler and the Nazis, when they would say that they will better off with Germany and make Germany hierarchy like it…

George Rex Jr married into the Knauss family. This was the backwoods idea of a power couple via the mid 1700's. The Knauss family in America took their ancestry seriously. The family genealogists organized an impressive show in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania. How many people would you consider a complete family reunion? Fifty, seventy-five , even one hundred people? How about twelve hundred people? The Knuass elders leaders organized such a reunion. Their ability to gather information in…

that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government . . ." should be decided upon. It was decided in the settlement in Paris that Alsace and Lorraine would be given to France as they had lost these territories in 1871. Eupen and Malmédy would be given to Belgium as compensation for their sufferings that they went through during the…

Nationalism Essay Nationalism is the sense of loyalty to one’s nation — has been widespread throughout history. Prior to the 19th century, nationalism was seen in Dynasties in China, The Maurya and Gupta Empire. Nationalism first developed in Europe. Europe nations were already industrialized. In size of the world was shrinking in the 19th century. Nationalism spread by the certain commonalities, like common language, common history, common culture, common religion and common ethnicity.…