Part 2 on the The Treaty of Versailles The terms of the Treaty ... which would eventually be set at an enormous 132 billion gold marks. WAR GUILT On top of this Germany was not allowed to join ...

By a simple declaration, the U.S., Britain, France and seven other nations annulled 29 clauses of the 1947 peace treaty, including the clause that indicted Italy for its war guilt. Also abandoned ...

DAN SNOW:I've never seen the Treaty of Versailles, so I've come here to ... loss of their armed forced, the War Guilt Clause leading to the reparations agreed at £6 billion.

In early 1919 the victorious Allies met to discuss how to punish Germany and on 28 June 1919 the new German government was forced to sign a peace settlement called the Treaty of Versailles.