ToV Flashcards
Name of the French Prime Minister??
Clemenceau
British Prime Minister??
Loyld Goerge
American President??
Woodrow Wilson
what were Wilsons aims??
14 points, a safe democratic world, fair peace, self determination, league of nations
aims of lyold goerge??
comprimise, punish germany, protect the empire, trade, future peace, keep public happy
aims of Clemenceau??
blames germany = hard justice, angry= revenge, make germany pay reparations, inderpendent rhineland, take alsace-lorraine, peace= by crippling germany
how many acres of french land had been destroyed?
8000 acres
how many french building were destroyed
250000
What is an armatice??
an agreement to stop fighting
what are reparations
payment that would have to be made to pay off the damages caused by the war
how many soldiers were germany allowed?
100,000 men
how many battleships and seamen were germany allowed
1500 and 6 battleships
What was the total cost of the reparations
£6600 million or 6.6 billion
what 4 military areas were germany not allowed
no airforce, no tanks, no submarines, no conscription
What happened to Danzig
it was made a free city
what was anschluss
union between austria and germany banned
what covernant was set up by the treaty
league of nations - an agreement not to fight
what is a covenant
the rules for the deafeated nation
what article was the war guilt clause
article 231
what did the war guilt clause mean
that germany had to say they were to blame for the war
which 5 countries gained land from germany?
poland, france, Belguim, lithunia, Denmark
what happened to Alsace-Lorraine?
Givern to France
who was the treaty of Breast-Litovisk was signed by who and what did it agree
Germany and russia, germany got loads of new land
where is the rhineland?
between france and germany it was made a demilatarized zone
what happened to the saar
made under the control of Lon for 15 years, and france givern coalfields as part of the reparations
why did the germans hate the tov
all germans hated it- they thought they would get fair peace based on ww 14 points. the fact that they were so harsh to the russians was conveinatly forgotten
why did the french hate the tov
they felt that Germany wasnt treated harsh enough and therefore they wern’t safe from future invasions.
Why did Briton hate the tov
they thought it was to harsh and would effect trade
why did the USA hate the ToV
saw it as a way of including the usa in the european squabbles (USA return to isolationism)
Why did germany feel the ToV was UNFAIR
Unrepresented Not allowed to join LoN Forced to accept the terms (diktat) Angry with armed forces reductions Injustice - war guilt loss of land etc Reparations to high
what year were the cost of reparations decided
1921
what percentage of its land did germany lose
10%
how much of its oversea colonies did germany lose
all of them
how much of germanys population did it lose
12.5%
how much of its iron and steel indstry did germany lose
almost half
how much of the coalfields did germany losse
16%
why did gemany sign the treaty of versaille
because their army commander Hindenburg said germany could not possibly win
what were the 4 other treaties?
(SaiNTS) saint germain (with austria)
Neuilly (with bulgaria)
trianin (with hungary
severes (with turkey)
Who was treated the most harshly and why?
Germany because as was most to blame
what did all the losing counties have to do?
disarm, pay reparations, lose land
which of the losing countries were invited to the drawing up of the treaties?
none of them
in which countries were the treaty of severes (turkey thought to harsh and which thught it wasnt harsh enough?
Thought it was to harsh: Britian, America
Not harsh enough: france
How did germany react to the ToV
they hated it
