The Treaty of Versailles A Presentation with the use of MS PowerPoint (click Notes Pages View Button for the speaker's notes) Explantory Notes to the Teachers This PowerPoint file is not a lesson plan. It only serves to demonstrate some basic features in MicroSoft PowerPoint that may be useful in History teaching. Teachers should supplement the slides with teaching strategies such as questioning, explaining, group discussions, debates, etc. (Some of these are already suggested in the Notes Pages - click Notes Pages View Button in the View Buttons.)
Treaty of Versailles and Other settlements This set of slides introduces students to the main terms in the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty terms can be divided into 5 categories: War Guilt Clause Territorial Terms Disarmament Reparations Others
Treaty of Versailles War Guilt Clause
Treaty of Versailles Territorial Terms
Treaty of Versailles Disarmament
Treaty of Versailles Reparations
Treaty of Versailles Others
GUILTY War guilt clause War guilt Germany had to accept total responsibility for causing the war GUILTY Why do you think Germany was forced to accept the war guilt clause?
Territorial terms
Territorial terms
Territorial terms
Territorial terms West Prussia to Poland (The Polish Corridor) Upper Silesia to Poland
Territorial terms
Territorial terms
Territorial terms Alsace-Lorraine to France Saar coal field to France for 15 years
Territorial terms
Territorial terms
Territorial terms North Schleswig to Denmark Danzig became a free city under the League
Territorial terms
Territorial terms
Territorial terms
Territorial terms Germany and Austria were forbidden to unite Germany lost all its overseas colonies in Asia and Africa Rhineland became a demilitarised zone Why was Germany not allowed to unite with Austria? Why did Rhineland become a demilitarised zone?
Territorial terms The lost territories contained 15% of Germany's agricultural land 10% of Germany's industry 4 million Germans
NO NO Disarmament 100,000 6 battleships no U-boat no airforce no tanks no artillery no conscription NO
6,600 million (not fixed until 1921) Reparations 6,600 million (not fixed until 1921) Reparations covered the war damage and the entire cost of fighting the war Do you think Germany was able to pay the reparations? Do you think the Allies had taken away Germany's ability to pay? Why was such a huge sum of reparations imposed on Germany?
Other Settlements Old empires of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Turkey were broken up. New countries were created in Eastern Europe. The League of Nations was set up. Members agreed on the principles of collective security and disarmament.
Discussion If you were a German, what was your reaction towards the settlement? If you were Woodrow Wilson / Lloyd George / Clemenceau, were you satisfied with the settlement?