Answer:
A The penalties of the Treaty imposed on Germany were too harsh.
Explanation:
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was a peace treaty signed by the European powers that officially ended World War I.
The terms imposed on Germany included the loss of part of its territory to a number of border nations, all the colonies over the oceans and the African continent, a restriction on army size, and compensation for wartime damage.
The Weimar Republic also agreed to recognize the independence of Austria. German Foreign Minister Hermann Muller signed the treaty on 28 June 1919. The treaty was ratified by the League of Nations on 10 January 1920. In Germany the treaty caused shock and humiliation in the population, which contributed to the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and the rise of Nazism.
In the treaty a commission was created to determine the precise extent of the reparations that Germany had to pay. In 1921, this figure was officially set at $ 33 million. Burdens on this payment are often cited as the main cause of the end of the Weimar Republic and Adolf Hitler's rise to power, which inevitably led to the outbreak of World War II only 20 years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
