Key Question 1 Vocab Flashcards
Anschluss.
The union of German speaking countries e.g. Austria.
The Big Three.
Britain, France & the US.
A demilitarised zone.
A province with no military.
Democracy.
The population are all members of the state and have an equal hand in voting.
Disarmament.
The reduction or withdrawal of military forces or weapons.
Fourteen points.
Wilson’s 14 idealist ideas.
Hyperinflation.
Inflation that occurs at a ridiculously high rate.
Idealist.
Someone who envisions an ideal world rather than the real one.
Realist.
A person who accepts the situation as it is and deals with it accordingly.
Kapp Putsch.
An attempted overthrow of the Weimar Republic.
League of Nations.
An inter-governmental organisation created to resolve international disputes.
Mandates.
A set of official orders or commissions to do something.
Paris Peace Conference.
A set of diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 in which the victorious allies set the peace terms for the defeated powers.
Reparations.
Providing payment to those who have been wronged.
Rhineland.
Loosely defined area of western Germany along the Rhine.
Ruhr.
Largest urban area in Germany.
Saar.
A disputed German state.
Self-determination.
The process of a country determining its own statehood.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A treaty signed on the 3rd of March 1918 that made Russia withdraw from the war.
Treaty of Versailles.
A treaty signed on the 28th of June 1919 that was designed to break Germany.
War guilt.
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles that said Germany must accept guilt for the war.
Young Plan.
An attempt to settle the dispute with Germany over reparations.
