KQ1 Flashcards
When did america join the war?
1917
What did Clemenceau want from the TOV?
- reparations
- unilateral disarmament
- remove threat of German war
- cripple Germany econmically
- reclaim Alcase Lorraine
What did Wilson want from the peace treaty
- just and lasting peace
- League of Nations
- 14 points
- multilateral disarmament
- no revenge
- national self determination
- prevent communism
What did Lloyd George want from the TOV
- peace to improve economy and trading
- public want revenge
- Germany to recover as a trading partner
- worried about spread of communism
- maintain naval supremacy
- protect empire
- economic stability
What were the terms of the TOV
- Germany had to accept blame for war
- army limited to 100,000 men
- navy limited to 6 battleships (dreadnoughts)
- no submarines, planes or tanks
- remove germanies empire
- return German land to France
- forbidden Anschluss with Austria
- had to pay $6.6 billion in reparations
- league of nations set up
- German soldiers not allowed in Rhineland
What was national self determination?
When a country becomes its own without being apart of an empire
What are examples of land returned to france in the TOV?
- Alsace Lorraine
- west Prussia
- upper Silesia
- polish corridor
What was the treaty of saint German?
-Austria gave land to Poland and Italy
- army max 30000
- weapon factories destroyed
- denied access to seas
- banned alliance w Germany
- reparations agreed (no figure set)
What was the treaty of Trianon? What other treaty was it based on?
- Hungary had to admit war guilt
- was based on TOV
- army reduced to 350000 men
- tanks warships and aircraft forbidden
- changed borders
- pay $200 million in reparations
What was the treaty of Neuilly?
- Bulgarian army reduced to 20,000 men
- navy and RAF destroyed
- reparations of 2.25 billion francs (more than Germanuy_)
- land given to Romania and Greece
- 50,000 Bulgarians expelled from Greece and 40,000 Greeks leave Bulgaria
What was the treaty of sevres and what did it aim to destroy?
(Was designed to destroy what was left of Ottoman Empire)
- army restricted to 50,700 men
- navy only 7 ships + 6 torpedo boats
- creation of airforce forbidden
- broke Ottoman empire into individual countries
What is a mandate?
- the authority a government has
What was the treaty of Brest-Litovsk? How did it prove the TOV was not too harsh?
- made as a exult of Russia leaving WW1
- Russia gave Baltic states to Germany
- gave land to Ottoman Empire
- $6.6 billion German gold marks in reparations
This treaty that Germany made Russia sign was harsher than the TOV
What were Wilson’s 14 points?
-no secret treaties
- freedom of seas
- free trade between all nations
- multilateral disarmament
- national self determination
- return land (e.g. Alsace Lorraine)
- evacuation of occupied forces from the ottoman empire
- League of Nations
- indipendance of Poland and turkey
