The Peace Treaties of 1919-1923 Flashcards
how many casualties did the french suffer in WW1?
6 million
how much did France spend on WW1?
$24bn
what was the ‘Zone Rouge’?
1,200 square kilometers of land in France which was deemed too damaged by human conflict for human habitation
who was the leader of France at the end of WW1?
George Clemenceau
what did Clemenceau want from the TOV?
gain land (particularly Alsace-Lorraine)
break Germany up into small weak states to prevent war happening again
economic reparations
reduce size of the German army
how many casualties did Britain suffer in WW1?
3 million (almost every British family lost a member to the war)
how much did Britain spend on WW1?
$35bn
who was the leader of Britain at the end of WW1?
David Lloyd-George
what were Lloyd-George’s aims at the Paris peace conference?
gain economic reparations
gain land for the British empire
reduce Germany’s navy so Britain maintained its naval supremacy
not to crush Germany as didn’t want France to be dominant in mainland Europe
how many casualties did the US suffer in WW1?
360,000
how much did the US spend on WW1?
$22.5bn
who was the leader of the US at the end of WW1?
Woodrow Wilson
what were Wilson’s aims at the Paris peace conference?
14 points including:
free trade between countries
all countries to work towards disarmament
France to regain Alsace-Lorraine
league of nations to be set up
self determination for the people of Eastern Europe
what clause was the ‘war guilt’ clause?
clause 231
how did France lose Alsace-Lorraine?
France lost Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871 after defeats in the Franco Prussian War
when was the figure for reparations decided on?
1921
how much in reparations did Germany have to pay?
£6.6bn
how long would Germany have been paying off reparations if repayments were as scheduled?
until 1984
how much did the allies spend collectively on the war?
over $80bn
how much did Germany spend on the war?
$38bn
how much was the Germany army limited to under the TOV?
100,000 men
how much was the Germany navy limited to under the TOV?
15,000 men and 6 battleship
other than the navy and army what other military restriction were placed on Germany under the TOV?
No air force
Rhineland demilitarized
Conscription abolished
Tanks and chemical weapons banned
what was Anschluss?
The union of Germany and Austria
What were the ‘mandates’?
the colonies which were divided up among the winning powers were officially known as ‘mandates of the league’
give two examples of former German mandates?
the Cameroons and Togoland became mandates under french control
Tanganyika became a mandate under British control
when was the league of nations set up?
in 1919 as part of the TOV (Germany was forbidden from joining until it had shown itself to be a peace-loving nation)
when was the Weimer republic set up?
In November 1918 after Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated
why did the winter of 1918 see a rise in discontent in Germany?
food shortage
epidemic of Spanish flu
how many people did the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918 kill?
50,000
who led the spartacist uprising?
Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht
when was the spartacist uprising?
4th-15th January 1919
how was the spartacist uprising crushed?
using Freikorps
who were the Freikorps?
a group of ex-German soldiers who refused to disarm
what happened on the 7th April 1919?
a soviet republic was set up in Bavaria with Munich as its capital
How was the soviet public in Bavaria crushed?
using the freikorps after they besieged Munich for weeks, killing 600 communists
how did the Weimer government crush the communist campaign in the Ruhr?
using the Freikorps, police and army, resulting in 2000 casulties