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Performance Task-Territory Loss
Use pages 9-12 of this packet for background information on the Treaty of Versailles Section "E" below.can
be used to directly transfer to your essay Conduct additional internet research if necessary
4 Territory Loss: Rhineland, Saar Coalfields and Alsace-Lorraine, Colonies (ARTICLE 42-51: 118-158)
Germany is forbidden to maintain or construct any military fortifications in the Rhineland in the area
defined above the maintenance and the assembly of armed forces, either permanently or temporarily.
and military maneuvers of any kind....are in the same way forbidden.
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Germany gives to France in full and absolute possession the coal-mines situated in the Saar Basin,
coalfields.
The territories of Alsace-Lorraine which were given to Germany in accordance with the Preliminaries
of Peace signed at Versailles on February 26, 1871, are restored to French sovereignty as from the date
of the Armistice of November 11, 1918.
• Germany gives up in favor of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, all her rights and titles over
her oversea possessions in Siam. Liberia, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Bulgaria and Japan
In case Germany's iolates the above acts, she shall be regarded as committing a hostile act agatost the
Powers signatory of the present Treaty and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world.
Why were these clauses probably inserted?