Vocab Flashcards
Terms of Treaty of Versailles for Germany
Germany had to give Alsace and Lorraine back to France, army is now 100,000, no machine guns, tanks, draft, planes, submarines, remove all over sea colonies and previously taken over territory, and 33 billion dollars in reperations
League of Nations
League of Nations is a group with nations from all over the world (60 nations at time - not including the us) that was made to keep peace in the world. Not very strong or stable.
Reparations
Pay for negative actions caused
Militarism
Big military power, ideas, and values. Increased importance of military
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation. Can be a desire for independence from external rule
Alliances
A partnership among nations that can be economic, military related, political, social, or geographic)
Isolationism
A period of isolation in trade, alliances, support, political control and alliances from the outside world. ; A policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other groups (other countries political affairs)
(A period Germany went through that caused the German children to be posing with hatred and isolationism - WW2)
Treaty of Versailles
A treaty created by the allied powers that forced Germany to assume full blame of war. Also, imposed huge repetitions on Germany, limits German army, return territories to France. Germany singed it because they had no choice