Impact of WW1 Flashcards
Who were the allies at the start WW1?
- British
- French
- Russians
- Serbs
- Belgians
Who were against the allies?
- Germany
* Austrians
Why were so many ordinary Germans ill?
- Britain used their navy to prevent supply ships reaching Germany
- Germany was in shortage of food, medicines and clothes
- there was a flu epidemic sweeping the country
What was the response from German workers?
•In 1916 10,000 workers assembled in Berlin and shouted “Down with the war, down with the government”
In 1918 what hero advised the kaiser?
- Ludendorff
* he advised the kaiser to share more of his power with the parliament and transfer some of his power to the Reichstag
When did the German Navy revise orders at sea to attack British ships?
- 28th October 1918
* they set up councils in towns and ran them
When did the kaiser abdicate?
9th November 1918
When did Germany surrender from WW1?
11th November 1918
What were the people that ended the war known as?
The November criminals
What was the cost of reparations?
£6.6 billion
Why were war pensions going to be so expensive?
There were 60,000 war widows and two million children without fathers
Why had the German economy dropped?
The factories had used all their resources for weapons not to sell things abroad and make money
What crisis was caused by the war in 1923?
Hyperinflation crisis
Why were Germany in debt after the war?
They had borrowed money from other countries which they had to pay back
What were the social impacts of the war on Germans?
- women had worked in factories in the war, this damaged traditional family values
- workers were unhappy with wages and leadership
Political impacts of war
- Germany was full of revolution
* people refused to support the Weimar Republic as they saw them as the November criminals
Reparations of the Treaty of Versailles?
- £6.6billion
* set in instalments every year
Treaty of Versailles army condutions
- army reduced to 100,000 men
- rearmament prohibited
- Navy limited to 15,000 men and 6 battleships
- no submarines, tanks or Air Force
- Rhineland demilitarised
Territorial conditions in treaty of Versailles
- Germany lost 10% of its land
- Germany’s colonies under control of the league
- Anschluss with Austria forbidden
- Alsace-Loraine given to France
- Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium
- North Schleswig to Denmark
- Danzig and Saar under control of league
- Germany split in two giving Poland access to sea
What was Article 231 and why was it so bad?
- the war guilt clause
- meant Germany had to take full responsibility for the war
- embarrassing
- meant they received all the punishments
