Before WW1

Question 1

Triple Entente

Answer 1

1907

Question 2

Triple Alliance

Answer 2

1890

Question 3

USA gained political power with WW1

Answer 3

Because the US did not enter the war until 1917 its economic progress continued throughout the war and thus it emerged as the greatest economic power. Trade with Britain and France rose from $753 million to $2.75 billion between 1914 and 1916.

Question 4

Severity or Britain

Answer 4

Took large loans to sponsor the war effort, lost its trading partners to the US and Japan, needed Germany’s money to re-start the economy, wanted its colonies and land, public opinion (December 1918)

Question 5

France’s severity

Answer 5

Great debt to the US, most of the fighting went on in France so its land, infrastructure (roads, railways), agriculture, houses and buildings were destroyed so they needed German money and resources to rebuild them. Public expectations for Germany to be punished for its crimes (general elections November 1919).

Question 6

USA’s GNI before WW1

Answer 6

1890 - $10 billion

1910 - $35 billion

Question 7

Reparation

Answer 7

Compensation paid by the defeated nation/s for war damage

Question 8

Interesting note

Answer 8

Clemenceau asked USA to cancel its war debts so it could be more lenient towards Germany however it refused

Question 9

Day of armistice with Germany

Answer 9

November 11 1918

Question 10

Terms

Answer 10

• Germany handed over its fleet and war materials
• evacuated all German occupied land in France and Belgium
• allowed Allied occupation of the left bank of the river Rhine

Question 11

Armistice with Turkey

Answer 11

30th October

Question 12

Armistice with AH

Answer 12

3rd November

Question 13

The main aim of the Paris Peace Conferences

Answer 13

Ensuring lasting peace all over the world

Question 14

Council of Four

Answer 14

Britain, USA, France and Italy who should have made the decisions at the PPC

Question 15

Representatives of the defeated powers were not included in the main peace talk

Answer 15

They were to be presented with the final treaty and if they rejected it, the war would continue

Question 16

British government minister speaking in the general election campaign: december 1918

Answer 16

Eric Geddes: All German private and State property in Allied and neutral countries should be surrendered

Question 17

German foreign secretary who sent the telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico

Answer 17

Arthur Zimmerman

Question 18

What did the Zimmerman telegram state?

Answer 18

It encouraged Mexico to attack the US and guaranteed German support

Question 19

Fontainebleau Memorandum

Answer 19

Written by David Lloyd George the British PM in March 1919. In it he urged more lenient terms for Germany. German speaking peoples should stay in Germany and the reparations should not be too great.

Question 20

Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow

Answer 20

June 1919

Question 21

Armistice signed between Germany and Allied military commanders that approved the suspension of hostilities

Answer 21

11 November 1918

Question 22

What happened after the Kiel mutiny?

Answer 22

By the 6th of November workers and soldiers, tired and starved by the Northern Sea blockade, took control of many German towns and set up soviets (worker’s councils) to run the country. They were aiming at stopping the war.

Question 23

General strike in Berlin

Answer 23

9th of November

Question 24

Result of the Berlin strike

Answer 24

Social Democrats (Germany’s largest party) announces that the Kaiser had abdicated and proclaims the establishment of a new German republic.

Question 25

Wilhelm goes to exile in the Netherlands

Answer 25

11 November

Question 26

Germany’s GDP decrease from 1913 to 1918

Answer 26

2/3

Question 27

Friedrich Ebert

Answer 27

Member of the Reichstag even before the war. Leader of the Social Democratic Party at the end of the war; became president of the republic until his death in 1925. Elected with 85% of the vote.