Chapter 19, sec.4, Critical Thinking #5

Predict Germany’s reaction to the Treaty of Versailles. Give reasons for your predictions. Think About:
• what Germans thought of the war-guilt clause
• German reaction to reparations
• how Germans felt about the loss of territory

Germany's reaction to the Treaty of Versailles is most likely frustration and a want for revenge. The Germans were humiliated by the war-guilt clause which made it so Germany had to take the soul blame for the war. This upset them because other European powers were also in the fault for provoking diplomatic crises before the war. The reparations made it so Germany had to pay the allies $33 billion for war damages. It also made it so the region of Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. German also lost territory. They lost their colonies in the Pacific which could have helped pay for the $33 billion. Some Germany land was given to the Polish in order to make Poland, and now some Germans were under the control of the Polish.