International relations - peace settlement

Question 0

When and where was the treaty signed?

Answer 0

In the place of Versailles near Paris

Question 1

Who were the big three?

Answer 1

David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson

Question 2

What did Europe expect from the treaty?

Answer 2

lasting peace

Make Germany pay for the damage and revenge

Question 3

What did Germans expect from the treaty?

Answer 3

Based on 14 points 
Setting up a League of Nations, 
free trade, 
self-determination freedom of the seas 
freedom for colonies

Question 4

What were Woodrow Wilson’s aims?

Answer 4

To end war by creating a League of Nations based on his14 points
To ensure Germany was not destroyed
Not to blame Germany for the war - he hated the guilt clause

Question 5

What were David Lloyd George’s aims?

Answer 5

Land for Britain’s empire
To safeguard Britain’s navel supremacy
To please the electors
leave Germany strong enough to trade with

Question 6

What were George Clemenceau’s aims?

Answer 6

Revenge
Return Alsace-Lorraine
No League of Nations 
An independent Rhineland 
Huge reparations
Disband the German army so they could not attack

Question 7

What terms of the treaty effected the armed forces?

Answer 7

No Air Force 
Army limited to 100,000 and no conscription 
No tanks
Navy limited to 15,000
No submarines 
Size and number of navel ships limited

Question 8

What terms of the treaty effected the reparations?

Answer 8

The allies could demand payment for all the damage caused

It was reported in 1921 that Germany was presented with a demand for 6.6 billion

Question 9

What terms of the treaty effected German territory?

Answer 9

Germany lost all of it’s over seas colony’s

Anschluss between Germany and Austria was forbidden.

Question 10

What terms of the treaty effected the League of Nations ?

Answer 10

The Covent were rules for the league

Question 11

What were the opinions of the treaty in Germany?

Answer 11

could not negotiate 
There was a revolution ( the kapp )
Hated reparations economic crisis
Did not accept the war guilt clause
Didn't accept defeat
Often lived under foreign rule in new countries

Question 12

What were the opinions of the treaty in Britain ?

Answer 12

Gained German colonies

Lloyd George said it was too harsh and it would lead to another war

Question 13

What were the opinions of the treaty in France ?

Answer 13

Got Alsace Lorraine and German colonies
Most French people thought the League of Nations would not protect them
People wanted an independent, not a demilitarised Rhineland

Question 14

What were the opinions of the treaty in America ?

Answer 14

Got the League of Nations and land in Europe
Wilson thought it was too harsh
Many Americans did not want to get involved with Europe

Question 15

What were the results of the other treaty’s ?

Answer 15

All defeated countries lost land and had to disarm
All were punished, Verailles, St.Germain and Trianon were the harshest treaty’s
Bulgaria did not get treated as bad
Countries that were created were governing different nationalities

Question 21

Why were future problems building?

Answer 21

Europe could not recover with Germany being poor
Self-determination was difficult in new countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia with different nationalities had been thrown together
German anger
Without Germany or USA the League of Nations was weak