WW1 Part 2 Flashcards
What new countries were formed
1) Austria- Hungary became separate
2) Czechoslovakia ( slavs)
3) Poland
4) Yugoslavia ( serbs\ Bosnia)
5) Rumania was expanded
6) Finland ( Russia⬇)
7) Latvia
8) Estonia
9) Lithuania
What were the parts of the Treaty of Versailles?
1) Germany had to pay war costs and reparations. Eventually was approximately $300 billion
2) a war guilt cause or was the blame
3) Germany was disarmed: small military
4) Germany had to return Alsace- Lorraine to France
5) Germany lost all of it’s countries
How did women help in the war effort
Served as nurses, clerks, drivers, non combat positions
How were African Americans discriminated against in the military
1) couldn’t serve in combat
2) segregated by units led by white officers
3) couldn’t join the marines
Explain the Russian Revolution’s and their affect on war
Led by Ladimir Lennon,Bolsheviks (reds) overthrow the provisional government and set up a communist government during 1917. Major setback for Allies
What did Lenin promise
1) bread
2) peace
3) land
Explain Treaty of Brest- Litovsk and it’s impact
A separate treaty between Germany and Russia
What did Russia lose
1) gave Germany 1 million square miles
2) coal mines
3) 62 million people to Germany
4) Germany could now move troops from Russia to the western front
Second battle of Marne
1) signaled and of trench warfare
2) Americans were on the offensive
3) airplanes were brought into support ground troops
Battle of Argonne Forest
September 1980
1) Allies has one after heavy casualties on both sides
2) after 47 days America won
3) lost more than 100,000 Americans
Who were the big four at the Paris peace conference? what countries did they represent?
1) Great Britain- Prime Minister David Lloyd George
2) France- Premier George Clemenceau
3) Italy- Prime minister Vittorio Orlando
4) U.S- Woodrow Wilson
What nation was not invited
Germany
What was the general idea behind Wilson’s 14 points
Hope to bring “peace with honor” and wanted to sure freedom and peace for all nations .peace without victory
So I’m up to 14 points
1) end all secret treaties
2) freedom of all seas and free-trade
3) peaceful settlement of colonial disputes
4) National self-determination
5) General association of nations to protect the independence of all countries large or small
What was the purpose of the league of Nations
1) if the country attacked another members nations could attack against the aggressor
2) action could be economic or military
