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The paper argues that the treaty of Versailles, a compromise between the wishes of US President Woodrow Wilson (the Fourteen Points) and the wishes of the major allied powers, was ultimately little more than a twenty-year armistice because of the onerous burdens it imposed upon Germany. In particular, the paper discusses how the Treaty of Versailles wrested from Germany German-speaking Alsace-Lorraine and stripped that nation of its overseas territories and its title to Shantung province, Germany's military forces de-mobilized and were limited in size and scope and finally, Germany was saddled with war guilt and with heavy reparations that threatened to cripple it.

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"The following paper will argue that the treaty of Versailles, a compromise between the wishes of US President Woodrow Wilson (the Fourteen Points) and the wishes of the major allied powers, was ultimately little more than a twenty-year armistice because of the onerous burdens it imposed upon Germany. In particular, the Treaty of Versailles wrested from Germany German-speaking Alsace-Lorraine and stripped that nation of its overseas territories and its title to Shantung province. Likewise, even with a hostile France on its borders, Germany was the one combatant which witnessed its military forces de-mobilized and limited in size and scope..."

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