Post WW1

Question 1

Economic terms of the treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

• lost 10% territory: Danzig, the Saarland etc
• had to pay $60000000000 in reparations and were given a sixty year period to do so.
• Germany lost land
• most of the first instalment of
  Reparations was paid in coal

Question 2

Treaty of Versailles was in

Answer 2

1919

Question 3

France

Answer 3

Clemenceau

Question 4

Britain

Answer 4

Lloyd George

Question 5

USA

Answer 5

Wilson

Question 6

War guilt Article 231 terms of the treaty of Versailles

Answer 6

This became known as the war guilt clause and placed any guilt for starting the war on Germany.

Accepting the blame meant that they had to pay reperations

The Germans hated as they did not believe it was their fault

Question 7

Military terms of the treaty of Versailles

Answer 7

The navy was reduced to 15,000 sailors, 6 battleships, 12 destroyers, 12 torpedo boats

The army was reduced to 1000000, with no conscription, tanks, artillery or poison gas.

The Air Force was completely destroyed

Question 8

One effect of the Paris peace conferences

Answer 8

It severely weakened Germany

• they weren’t allowed an Air Force
• they lost 10% of territory resources
• fined $6600 million in reparations in the 231 war guilt clause
• army reduced to 100,000 men

Question 9

Why did Germans hate the TOV

Answer 9

• military reasons

- economic reasons

Question 10

Diktat

Answer 10

Dictated peace (what Germans call the treaty of versailles)

Question 10

Why did the Big three disagree over the terms of the TOV?

Answer 10

• each country had been different affected by the war

- because they had different political aims

Question 10

Why did the Big three disagree over the terms of the TOV? Para 1 (each country had been differently affected by the war)

Answer 10

• France was very badly damaged, 750000 homes were destroyed therefore Clemenceau wanted revenge
• America didn’t join WW1 until 1917, very little damage to territory and so Wilson was more lenient.
• Britain had suffered enormously from the war which was costing £5.7 million per day but Lloyd George wanted to maintain trade in Europe as well as punishing Germany.

Question 10

Why did the Big three disagree over the terms of the TOV? Para 2 (because of their different political aims)

Answer 10

• Frances main aim was to make Germany suffer, for example they demanded the return of Alsace- Lorraine and the enormous reparations
• America and Woodrow Wilson had idealistic aims. Wilson wanted a lasting peace through his 14 points and allowing self determination for new nations.
• for British and Lloyd George, the main aim was to maintain a peaceful Europe. The British people did not want another war and so Lloyd George was more moderate