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1919

Peace Treaty is Announced; Summary of Pact Shows Drastic Terms Submitted to Foe Enjoys

# Schleswig and Related Territories and authorities shall evacuate the region north of the line running from the mouth of the Schlei, south of Kappel, Schleswig and Friedrichstadt, along the Elder to the North Sea, south to Tonning; the workmen's and soldiers councils shall be dissolved; and the territory administered by an international commission of five, of whom Norway and Sweden shall be invited to name two. The commission shall insure a free and secret vote in three zones. That between the German Danish frontier and a line running south of the island of Alsen, north of Flensburg and south of Tondern to the North Sea, north of the island of Sylt, will vote as unit within three weeks after the evacuation. Within five weeks after this vote the second zone, whose southern boundary runs from the North Sea south of the island of Fehr to the Baltic south of Sveum will vote by communes. Two weeks after that vote the third zone running to the limit of evacuation also will vote by communes. The international commission will then draw a new frontier on the basis of these plebiscites and with due regard for geographical and economic conditions. Germany will renounce all sovereignty over territories north of this line in favor of the associated governments who will hand them over to Denmark. ## Heligoland The qualifications, military establishments and harbors of the islands of Heligoland and Dune are to be destroyed under the supervision of the Allies by German labor and at Germany's expense.

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Treaty of Versailles

In June 1919, the Allies declared that war would resume if the German government did not sign the treaty they had agreed to among themselves. Gustav Bauer, the head of the new government, sent a telegram stating his intention to sign the treaty if certain articles were withdrawn, including Articles 227 to 231 (i.e., the Articles related to the extradition of the Kaiser and war guilt).

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Lodge Reservations

On September 16, 1919, Senator Lodge called the treaty up for consideration by the full Senate. Four days later, the Senate voted on Lodge's resolution to advise and consent to ratification subject to the reservations. The vote was 39 in favor and 55 opposed.

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Kapp Putsch

The Kapp Putsch was an abortive coup d'état against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, its goal was to undo the German Revolution of 1918–1919, overthrow the Weimar Republic, and establish an autocratic government.

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