P3-tov

Question 1

Pres.Wilson aims

Answer 1

LON - maintain peace + self determination in Europe - 14 Points
-idealist

Question 2

Clemencau aims

Answer 2

cripple german - strengthen poland at expense of germany + protect against Bolshevik state// rhineland - buffer state

Question 3

Lloyd George

Answer 3

concern french would get too much power at expense germany - argue with Wilson over french getting Saar - pushed by britain to cripple germany - A231

Question 4

how was treaty signed

Answer 4

May 1919 - G horrified - foreign minister open refusal - Scheidemanns resign + new gov. Led by Bauer of SPD - 28June - signed

Question 5

territorial losses

Answer 5

-A80 prevents anschluss w/ Austria // Upper Silesia lost to Poland 1922 // Rhineland demilitarised - buffer between France + G

Question 6

military terms

Answer 6

100,00 army // 6 battleships // no military aircraft

Question 7

colonial loss

Answer 7

G colonies given as mandates - German E.Africa = British mandate

Question 8

A231 + A232

Answer 8

war guilt establ. princ. of G liability - moral question - A232 - £6.6 billion reparations

Question 9

counter argument to treaty being too harsh

Answer 9

-clemencau not allowed more extreme demands e.g. annexation of Saar / Alsace lorraine would ahve voted for france - french before 1871 // Germany treated Russia harsly in Treaty of Brest-Livotsk 1918 - annexed baltic states + large area poland

Question 10

Treaty of Versailles significnace - why reperations did not completely cripple Germany’s economy

Answer 10

strongest european economy + resources // 1932 Dawes plan gets more money than reparations / stronger position than 1914 as empires of Russia, Austria-Hungrary + Turkey gone= power vacuum eatsern europe

Question 11

CA to TOV lack of significance

Answer 11

-minds of german ppl shaped by wartime propogands + ‘stab in the back myth’ = forced responsilbiity on Weimar decoracy - deeply weakened by TOV - opponents exploit over years propoganda ‘november criminals’ – contributed to internal politcal + economic diffuclties of germany 1919

Question 12

democrats Hugo Preuss said (to back up CA )

Answer 12

-‘German Republic born out of terrible defeat .. criminal madness of diktat shameless blow in the face to such hopes based on international law +political common sense’