WW1 aftermath unit 5

Question 1

September 10 1919

Answer 1

Treaty of Saint-Germain signed with Austria

Question 1

June 28 1919

Answer 1

Treaty of Versailles signed with Germany

Question 2

November 27 1919

Answer 2

Treaty of Neuilly signed with Bulgaria

Question 3

June 4 1920

Answer 3

Treaty of Trianon signed with Hungary

Question 4

August 10 1920

Answer 4

Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey

Question 5

march 1921

Answer 5

Plebiscite in Upper Silesia

Question 6

April 1921

Answer 6

German reparations fixed at 132B gold marks

Question 7

November 1921

Answer 7

Washington Conference

Question 8

1922 April

Answer 8

Genoa Conference and Rapallo Treaty between Germany and USSR

Question 9

11 January 1923

Answer 9

French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr

Question 10

24 July 1923

Answer 10

Treaty of Lausanne

Question 11

1924 August

Answer 11

Dawes Plan

Question 12

1925 December

Answer 12

Locarno Treaties

Question 13

1926 September

Answer 13

Germany joins League of Nations

Question 14

1928 August

Answer 14

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 15

1929 August

Answer 15

The Young Plan

Question 16

Pandemic

Answer 16

An epidemic on a global scale

Question 17

Dictated peace

Answer 17

A peace treaty that is dictated to the defeated state(s) rather than negotiated

Question 18

Covenant

Answer 18

Rules and Constitution of the League of Nations

Question 19

Reparations

Answer 19

Compensation paid by a defeated power to make good the damage it caused in a war

Question 20

War guilt

Answer 20

Carrying the blame for starting the war

Question 21

Dominions

Answer 21

The British dominions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa were self-governing, but part of the British Empire and the Commonwealth, of which to this day they are still members

Question 22

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 22

A French politician whose outspokenness won him the title of ‘the tiger’. As Prime Minister, he was a charismatic war leader, 1917-18 and presided over the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, but lost power in 1920. He oversaw the re-emergence of Germany as a great power and even predicted war in 1940

Question 23

Louis-Lucien Klotz

Answer 23

A French journalist and politician and Minister of Finance, 1917-20

Question 24

Louis Loucheur

Answer 24

French Minister of munitions, 1917-18, and Minister of Industrial reconstruction until 20 January 1920

Question 25

Bonds

Answer 25

Certificates issued by a government or a large company promising to repay borrowed money at a fixed rate of interest by a specified date

Question 26

Imperial War Cabinet

Answer 26

A cabinet made up of prime ministers of self-governing Commonwealth countries

Question 27

Milliard

Answer 27

One thousand million; now largely superseded by the term billion

Question 28

Ferdinand Foch

Answer 28

Commanded a French army group on the Somme, in 1916, then in 1917 became Chief of Staff to Petain. In April 1918 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Allied armies on the Western Front. He played a prominent part in the Paris Peace conference and retired in 1920

Question 29

Council of Ten

Answer 29

Representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the US(each had two representatives in it). Until March it was the controlling committee of the Conference

Question 30

Inter-Allied commissions

Answer 30

Allied committees set up to deal with particular tasks

Question 31

Plebiscite

Answer 31

A referendum or vote by the electorate on a single issue

Question 32

Free city

Answer 32

Self-Governing city under the protection of the League of Nations

Question 33

Eupen and Melmedy

Answer 33

After the League consulted the population about their wishes these territories were integrated into Belgium in 1925

Question 34

Self-determination

Answer 34

A states right to decide its own future

Question 35

Demilitarized

Answer 35

Having all military defenses removes

Question 36

Mandated status

Answer 36

Ex-German or Turkish territories entrusted to the Allied powers as mandates to govern in accordance with the interests of the local population

Question 37

Yugoslavia

Answer 37

Until 1929 Yugoslavia was known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes

Question 38

Rump Austria

Answer 38

What was left of Austria after its partition

Question 39

Anschluss

Answer 39

The Union of Austria with Germany

Question 40

Magyar

Answer 40

Ethnic Hungarians

Question 41

Balkan Prussia

Answer 41

Bulgaria was compared to Prussia, which in the eyes of the Allies had an aggressive and militarist reputation

Question 42

Zionists

Answer 42

Supporters of Zionism, a movement for reestablishing the Jewish state

Question 43

Balfour Declaration

Answer 43

A communication to the Zionists by A.J. Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, declaring British support for establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine

Question 44

Nationalism

Answer 44

A patriotic belief by a people in the virtues and power of their nation

Question 45

Ratified

Answer 45

Having received formal approval from the legislature

Question 46

Isolationist

Answer 46

Remaining aloof from international politics

Question 47

Secretary Henry Lodge

Answer 47

Republican Congressman

Question 48

Mutilated victory

Answer 48

A victory which was scarred by the refusal of the Allies to give Italy what had been promised

Question 49

Proletarian Nation

Answer 49

A nation that lacked an empire and raw materials. Like the proletariat(workers), it was poor.

Question 50

Successor states

Answer 50

The states created from former Austro-Hungarian and Russian territory

Question 51

Minorities Treaty

Answer 51

Treaty guaranteeing the rights of ethnic minorities

Question 51

Curzon line

Answer 51

Frontier proposed by British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, for Poland’s eastern frontier with the Soviet Union