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"Territorial ." //D.1. The Treaty of Versailles//. Colby College, n.d. Web. 16 May 2012. <[]>.
 * "In general, it has seemed that the treaty was either to harsh or too mild."
 * "On 18 January 1919 the leading statesmen of the victorious nations met in Paris to decide about the future of the defeated Central Powers."
 * "The choice of the opening date was a deliberate humiliation of Germany, since it was the birthday of the German Empire in 1871."
 * "Negotiations were conducted mainly between the heads of state of the United States, France, Britain, and Italy, the so-called "**big four**." They had widely differing goals."
 * "The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial international agreements."
 * "Many observers -- politicians and historians -- have tended to blame the rise of the Nazis on Versailles, following the dictum of an eminent democratic German politician."
 * "It was too harsh to reconcile Germany with its former war enemies and to integrate it into a lasting peaceful postwar order, and it was too mild to weaken Germany so as to make it impossible for it to ever again become a great power. The picture that emerges today after more intensive research is more complex and differentiated than that, but Versailles nevertheless remains both a highly ambivalent and crucial station in German history."
 * "Instead of admitting the new democratic Germany into the community of democratic nations, the Allies ostracized the vanquished nation. They even took pains to humiliate its national consciousness. Germany was -- for the time being -- not allowed to join the newly founded **League of Nations** and remained a pariah in the postwar order."
 * "On 18 January 1919 the leading statesmen of the victorious nations met in Paris to decide about the future of the defeated Central Powers."
 * "The main conditions of the treaty included territorial, military, financial, and judicial elements."
 * "The Germans were most infuriated at the claim that they had started the war and therefore should pay for everything."
 * "Military: Germany had to disarm almost completely and was only allowed an army of 100.000 men."
 * "Germany had to demilitarize a 50-kilometer zone on the right bank of the Rhine and was forbidden to own military airplanes, submarines, tanks, heavy artillery, and poison gas."
 * "A union of German Austria with Germany, although the declared wish of both peoples, was forbidden, and several million Germans living in Bohemia (in the **Sudetenland**) came under Czech rule, which most of them resented."
 * "Germany had to disarm almost completely and was only allowed an army of 100.000 men"