History A-Level
Article 231 War Guilt clause
What Article 231 War Guilt clause means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Article 231 War Guilt clause
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The clause that justified the crippling reparations imposed on Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Topics that use Article 231 War Guilt clause
- 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 – The Establishment and early years of Weimar, 1918–1924 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Constitutional strengths and flaws
- Democratic experimentation
- Diktat
- reparations
- Revolution and state-building
- The legacy of the First World War
- 'stab in the back' myth
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