Account for the German Reaction to the Terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

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Account for the German Reaction to the Terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

The Treaty of Versailles was the Peace Treaty that brought a formal end to the First World War. The Treaty was an extremely long document and had 440 Clauses and impositions. The German Government was not allowed a representative at the talks in Paris to discuss the drafting of the treaty.

As soon as the Treaty was given to Germany the German Chancellor denounced the Treaty in the Reichstag his Government voted against it 8 votes to 6. The Government resigned. The German President Ebert offered his resignation declaring it 'a Peace of Violence.' He suspended all public amusements for a week as a symbol of mourning the Treaty. The new Government accepted the Treaty 237 votes to 138 votes.

The harsh Treaty outraged many ordinary German people, when Hindenburg retired he called for 'Vengeance for the shame of 1919.'

In the Treaty the population and territory of Germany was reduced by about 10 percent by the treaty. On the west Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France, and the Saarland was placed under the supervision of the League of Nations