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Signed in June 1919, the [[Treaty of Versailles]] limited Germany to an army of 100,000 soldiers; it stipulated that the Rhineland be demilitarized and occupied by the western Allies for fifteen years. Germany was to surrender Alsace-Lorraine, northern Schleswig-Holstein, a portion of western Prussia that became known as the Polish Corridor because it gave Poland access to the Baltic, and all overseas colonies. An Allied Reparations Commission was established and charged with setting the amount of war-damage payments that would be demanded of Germany. And, most infuriatingly, the treaty also included the "war guilt clause," ascribing responsibility for World War I to Germany and Austria-Hungary. The clause would lay the seeds for the rise of the [[Nazi Party]], which would ultimately take power in Germany and cause another major war two decades later.
Signed in June 1919, the [[Treaty of Versailles]] limited Germany to an army of 100,000 soldiers; it stipulated that the Rhineland be demilitarized and occupied by the western Allies for fifteen years. Germany was to surrender Alsace-Lorraine, northern Schleswig-Holstein, a portion of western Prussia that became known as the Polish Corridor because it gave Poland access to the Baltic, and all overseas colonies. An Allied Reparations Commission was established and charged with setting the amount of war-damage payments that would be demanded of Germany. And, most infuriatingly, the treaty also included the "war guilt clause," ascribing responsibility for World War I to Germany and Austria-Hungary. The clause would lay the seeds for the rise of the [[Nazi Party]], which would ultimately take power in Germany and cause another major war two decades later.
==Further reading==
* Blackbourn, David, and Geoff Eley. ''The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany'' (1984) [http://www.questia.com/read/27706474 online edition]
* Clark, Christopher. ''Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947'' (2009), standard scholarly history
* Craig, Gordon A. ''Germany, 1866-1945'' (1978) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/germany-1866-1945-by-gordon-a-craig.jsp online edition]
* Holborn, Hajo. ''A History of Modern Germany'' (3 vol 1959-64); ol 3. 1840-1945
* Maehl, William Harvey. ''Germany in Western Civilization'' (1979), 833pp
* Mann, Golo. ''History of Germany since 1789'' (1968), very well written
* Mommsen, Wolfgang J. ''Imperial Germany 1867-1918: Politics, Culture and Society in an Authoritarian State'' (1995)
* Reinhardt, Kurt F. ''Germany: 2000 Years'' (2 vols., 1961), stress on cultural topics
* Retallack, James. ''Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II'' (1996) [http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Wilhelm-Studies-European-History/dp/0312160313/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201322874&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]
* Sheehan, James J. ''German History, 1770-1866'' (1993), the major survey in English [http://www.amazon.com/German-History-1770-1866-Oxford-Modern/dp/0198204329/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201322874&sr=8-8 except and text search]
* Taylor, A. J. P. ''The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815.'' (2001). 280pp; [http://www.questia.com/read/107459655 online edition]
* Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. ''The German Empire 1871-1918'' (1984)
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