Key words Flashcards
clemenceau
prime minister of france
woodrow wilson
president of america
lloyd-george
prime minister of britain
treaty of versailles
a treaty signed by germnay at the end of ww1
reperartions
germany had to make amends for ww1 by paying money
armistice
initial agreement to stop fighting during a war. countries then work out a treaty of peace
allies
friends between countries
saar
important industrial part of germany
diktat
when your forced to do something
demilitarised zone
could not put any soldiers or men in this area
anschluss
union between germnay and austria
abdicate
renounce/give up the throne
colonies
land that is taken over and controlled by another country`
stab in the back theory
the myth that the german army was stabbed in the back by the german government that they could have carried on fighting, at the end of ww1.
‘the big three’
representatives of the most powerful victorious countries who met at the paris peace conference.