The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:

• The surrender of German colonies — Areas conquered by the Axis would go to Belgium, France, Lithuania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
• Demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland
• Germans must pay reparations of £6,600 billion
• The forbidden union of Germany and Austria
• Germany accepting guilt for causing the war
• War leaders including the Kaiser must go on trial
• Germany’s army must not have more than 100,000 men
• Germany’s army was to have no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships
• The German navy was also limited in how many battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats it was allowed to have
• Germany was forbidden submarines