Conflict And Tension 1918-1939

Question 1

What was the Paris peace treaty?

Answer 1

32 countries met in the palace of Versailles to decide the terms of the final peace treaties

Question 2

What was George Clemenceau and Frances aims from the Paris peace treaty?

Answer 2

• wanted Germany to pay for reparations to rebuild areas of France badly affected by war
• wanted revenge for all lives lost
• aimed to weaken Germany so it could never attack again
• wanted to push German borders back to the Rhine so French people would feel safer

Question 3

What was David Loyd George and Britains aims at the Paris peace treaty?

Answer 3

• wanted a cautious approach: British public wanted Germany to be punished, but loyd George feared it would lead to revenge
• wanted to keep Germany strong enough to trade with them
• aimed to gain German colonies to add to the British Empire
• wanted naval supremacy by reducing a Germanys army

Question 4

What did Woodrow Wilson and the USA want from the Paris peace conference?

Answer 4

• wanted a fair peace, so Germany would not seek revenge
• proposed the fourteen points, including foundation of a League of Nations, self-determination and freedom of the seas

Question 5

Why did the German people hat the treaty so much?

Answer 5

• the German people felt the treaty was forced on them and they were not allowed to negotiate the terms( Diktat)
• war guilt clause, meaning accepting the responsibility for starting the war
• they had been told they were winning the war, so they felt stabbed in the back and betrayed by the government (November criminals)
• the people were starving because Britain had a blockade at the German ports during the war
• the kaiser had been forced to abdicate before the treaty was signed
• the German people felt it left them vulnerable
• 13% of land was lost to other countries so six million German people found that they were no longer living in Germany