Key Terms

Question 1

Treaty

Answer 1

A formal agreement between countries

Question 2

Reparations

Answer 2

Money paid as compensation

Question 3

Communists

Answer 3

Left wing political organisation that believes in equality and working for the state.

Question 4

Disarmament

Answer 4

Limiting the size of an army and its munitions

Question 5

Diktat

Answer 5

A dictated peace

Question 6

Anschluss

Answer 6

The union between Austria and Germany

Question 7

Abdicate

Answer 7

To step down from a position

Question 8

Kaiser

Answer 8

German title for an emperor

Question 9

Isolationism

Answer 9

A policy in which a country does not get involved in foreign affairs

Question 10

Propaganda

Answer 10

Using the media to persuade or convince the public to think a certain way

Question 11

Democratic

Answer 11

System of government where people vote for their leader

Question 12

Weimar Republic

Answer 12

The democratic government that ruled Germany from 1919 to 1932

Question 13

Putsch

Answer 13

German word for revolt

Question 14

Hyperinflation

Answer 14

When money becomes worthless

Question 15

Armistice

Answer 15

an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations