treaty of Versailles....?

Question

was it one of the terms of versailles that germany should have a democratic government or did germany decide it themselves?

Answer 1

shame by an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war
:)))))

Answer 2

Germany was already a republic by the time the treaty of Versailles was signed. In the late summer of 1918 when it became clear that Germany could no longer win the war, The Kaiser set up a constitutional goverment under Prince Max von Baden and attempted to negotiate a peace based upon president Wilson's fourteen points (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points). However Wilson said he would not negotiate with the "monarchial autocrats" of Germany. Baden wanted the Kaiser to abdicate and to have a constitutional monarchy with new monarchs. However following the November Revolution the Kaiser abdicated and a republic was declared. The treaty of Versailles was signed the following year in 1919.

You should also read more about the so called German November Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolution).

Answer 3

World War 2.

Germany signed the Versailles Treaty under protest. The USA Congress refused to ratify the treaty. Many people in France and Britain were angry that there was no trial of the Kaiser or the other war leaders.

The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:

(1) the surrender of all German colonies as League of Nations mandates;

(2) the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France;

(3) cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia,

(4) Poznania, parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to Poland;

(5) Danzig to become a free city;

(6) plebiscites to be held in northern Schleswig to settle the Danish-German frontier;

(7) occupation and special status for the Saar under French control; (8) demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland;

(9) German reparations of £6,600 million;

(10) a ban on the union of Germany and Austria;

(11) an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war;

(11) provision for the trial of the former Kaiser and other war leaders;

(12) limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 men with no conscription, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships;

(13) the limitation of the German Navy to vessels under 100,000 tons, with no submarines

Answer 4

yes and they did for some time - hitler came to power before the war and took over the german government illegally with arson and mayhem - arrests and murders - a majority of germans still resisted him just before he took over the government - then it was too scary to defy the reich - it meant the gestapo and death -

Answer 5

Hitler was brought into power legally and by democratic process.

Answer 6

OMG!!!
HISTORY
is a subject that makes me SLEEP
i even cant think of anything