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The Allies drew up the treaty based on the 'war guilt' clause, article 231, which stated that Germany was responsible for the outbreak of war. This meant the Allies could impose reparations, reduce Germany's armed forces and take resourceful territory, calling it a punishment
because they could not afford to go back to war. Germany’s coalition government did consider restarting the war instead of accepting the terms but Germany was too weak.
The treaty only allowed Germany to have an army of 100,000 men and there were on average seven applicants for each place. The short term impact of the army reductions were disastrous, however in the long term this aspect back fired on the Allies as such a small army meant they could be trained to be an elite force, and it pushed people towards unofficial armies such as the Nazis.
The Treaty of Versailles seemed to cause a very large amount of political tension, which could have been avoided if the treaty had not ignored Wilson's 14 point for most Germans the treaty was politically unacceptable to them, all it did was anger the German citizens and set the scene for another war.
The economic impact of the Treaty of Versailles was considerable with many contributing factors such as loss of resourceful territory, hyperinflation, huge war debts and reparations. Germany lost 13% of its territory which inhabited 10% of it's population as well as 15% of arable land, 75% of iron and 68%of zinc ore and 26% of coal resources. West Prussia was given to the Poles so they would have access to the sea to trade to build up their economy, which was not really a suitable reason for the Germans.
It was thought the territorial losses were more important but it was the reparations that caused most discontent, this was because of the link to the 'war guilt' clause, Germany was held responsible for 'damage and loss' so reparations could be demanded. The final sum of reparations was not fixed until 1921 (6600 million).
The germans thought that the treaty was simply revenge on Germany. This is suggested by the uneven application of self-determination, why was it only the German Empire that was disbanded? Also with the reparations, loss of industrial territory and shipping facilities being exported out there was no way Germany could cope, this greatening the economic impact.
Transferring some wealth through money and industry was a small price to pay for the damage they caused to France. Also it has never been proved how much of the economic problems were a result of the treaty and how much were down to the government.
The treaty of Versailles was which caused the most aggression amongst Germans, especially the 'war guilt' clause making the political impact greater and so for this reasons and many more contributing factors the most important ain for the foreign policy was to overthrow the treaty of Versailles during the years 1933-36