Cause - Treaty Of Versailles

Question 1

When was the TOV signed

Answer 1

June 28th 1919

Question 2

Where was the TOV signed

Answer 2

The paris peace conference - hall of mirrors in the palace of versailles

Question 3

When did the TOV go into effect

Answer 3

January 10, 1920

Question 4

What did the TOV do?

Answer 4

Gave up German territories (to places such as belgium and poland) including all of their overseas colonies, accept the blame for WW1, pay £6.6 billion in reperations, limit its army to 100,000 men and six naval ships, have no airforce, tanks or submarines and demilitarise Rhineland

Question 5

Why was rhineland important

Answer 5

Rhineland had been the primary industrial region of Germany for producing coal, steel and iron resources

Question 6

The key people responsible for TOV

Answer 6

USA (President Woodrow Wilson), France (Prime minister Georges Clemenceau), Britain (Prime minister David Lloyd George). A delegate was Italy (Prime minister) but was locked out of decision making

Question 7

What did Woodrow Wilson want from the TOV

Answer 7

(USA) to create an egalitarian (all people are equal and have equal rights) system that would prevent another world war

Question 8

What did Georges Clemenceau want from TOV

Answer 8

(France) to make sure that Germany would never be a threat to France ever again and didn’t care for Woodrow Wilson’s equality beliefs

Question 9

What did David Lloyd George want from TOV

Answer 9

(Britain) to have everyone have a balance of power but still for Germany to pay reperations

Question 10

What did Woodrow Wilson think of TOV

Answer 10

Woodrow Wilson disliked the treaty because he saw it as not being able to create lasting peace. He also thought that those in power should have been punished, not the people

Question 11

What did Georges Clemenceau think of TOV

Answer 11

He was dissatisfied because he did not believe that the treaty had punished Germany enough, since the reperations he wanted would involve Germany being crippled and paying forever

Question 12

What did David Lloyd George think of TOV

Answer 12

He was dissatisfied because he thought that France was too harsh, and that because of this “we will have to fight another war in 25 years time, and at three times the cost” (quote from David Lloyd George)

Question 12

What was clause 231

Answer 12

The war guilt clause, where Germany had to accept the sole blame for starting WW1

Question 13

How did Germany react to clause 231?

Answer 13

It hurt Germany’s pride

Question 14

How did Germany react to the reperations?

Answer 14

Refused to pay it until France and Britain invaded in january 1921. They said that the two countries were trying to starve their children to death

Question 15

How did Germany respond to the military reduction

Answer 15

The Germans hated it feeling like they were defenceless. This caused many sailors to sink their fleet instead of handing the ships over

Question 16

How did Germany respond to the territory reduction

Answer 16

Germans hated this since Germany lost a tenth of their land. This was also because it made Germans live in other countries and that Germany was not allowed to unite with the Austrian Germans, other wise known as Anschluss

Question 17

What was the “stabbed in the back” myth

Answer 17

The belief that the soldiers had been “stabbed in the back” by those in power. In particular, the power and influence of the Jewish elite.
This belief persisted because Germany was never invaded during WW1 nor had their armies suffered a crushing defeat. It was said that the Jews forced the government to sign the treaty of Versailles