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The thirteen articles of the Rhineland Agreement included the following points: [1] The occupation of the west bank of the Rhine under the stipulations of the Armistice of 1918 [14] was to continue. No German troops were permitted in the zone; that is, it was to be demilitarised.
The American historian Gerhard Weinberg called the demilitarised status of the Rhineland the "single most important guarantee of peace in Europe" by preventing Germany from attacking its western neighbours and, since the demilitarised zone rendered Germany defenseless in the West, by making it impossible to attack its eastern neighbours by ...
In the early 1800s, Rhinelanders settled the Missouri Rhineland, a German cultural region and wine-producing area in the U.S. State of Missouri, and named it after noticing similarities in soil and topography to the Rhineland in Europe. By 1860, nearly half of all settlers in Missouri Rhineland came from Koblenz, capital of the Rhine Province ...
The mission of UNCMAC is to supervise the Military Armistice Agreement between the two Koreas along the 151 mile Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) [1] is an area in which treaties or agreements between states, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies ...
Following the Armistice of 1918, Allied forces occupied the German territory west of the Rhine.To maintain a military presence on the eastern side, the Allied powers extended their zones of occupation by creating three semi-circular bridgeheads of 30 km (19 mi) radius, radiating from Cologne (British zone), Koblenz (American zone), and Mainz (French zone).
After the end of the First World War in November 1918, the left bank of the Rhine and 50 km wide strip on the right bank were declared a "demilitarized zone". At first the Americans administered this territory, after 1923 the French. In the Rhineland, the change from a monarchy to a republic went almost unnoticed.
Initially, 5 zones of Occupation of the Rhineland were established, but the American Forces handed over their zone in 1923, since they had not ratified the Treaty of Versailles, to the French. The treaty also separated the Saar from the Province and administered by the League of Nations until a plebiscite in 1935, when the region was returned ...
Occupation of the Rhineland (1 C, 9 P) S. Sinai Peninsula (9 C, 39 P) Pages in category "Demilitarized zones" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 ...