WWI

Question 0

League of Nations

Answer 0

First attempt at peace

League had no armed forces or authority

Question 1

Post WWI Diplomacy

Answer 1

Germany embittered by the Treaty of Versailles
Idealism
U.S. sought isolationism

Question 2

Reparations created

Answer 2

The reparation-war debt cycle

Question 3

Post War Problems

Answer 3

Britain:
Economy suffer (coal industry)
Unemployment 
Welfare state
Government Dole

Question 4

France’s Economic Success

Answer 4

Small business decreased unemployment
New factories replaced old ones destroyed by war
Alsace-Lorraine territory had natural resources

Question 5

France’s Politics

Answer 5

Too many political parties, none could gain enough favour
Constantly changing prime minister’s
Socialist and Communist political parties

Question 6

France and Germany post war

Answer 6

France remained wary of Germany
Created Maginot Line
Britain and USA refused to aid France

Question 7

The Great Depression

Answer 7

Collapse of stock market
Decline of foreign trade
Drop of prices
Failure of banks
Closed factories
High unemployment

Question 8

Treaty of Versailles Territorial Provisions

Answer 8

Return Alsace-Lorraine to France and other land to Belgium and Denmark
Independent Polish nation
Germany lost all Asian and African colonies

Question 9

Economic Provisions of Versailles Treaty

Answer 9

Coal from Germany sent to Allied nations and German ships are sent to Allies
German Reparations

Question 10

Military Provisions of Versailles Treaty

Answer 10

Germany Army= 100,000 men maximum
Rhineland remained demilitarised
No tanks, no guns, no air crafts, no submarines, only six warships

Question 11

War Guilt Clause

Answer 11

Blamed Germany and its Allied forces for the war

Question 12

Why was Germany embittered?

Answer 12

They felt it was unjust to shoulder all the blame of the war

Question 13

Treaty of St. Germain

Answer 13

Austria gave territory to Italy

Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia become independent

Question 14

Treaty of Sevres

Answer 14

Dismantled the Ottoman Empire
Middle Eastern Territories become French and English colonies
Demilitarised straights near Turkey

Question 15

Charles Dawes

Answer 15

American banker who initiated a plan to spread Germany’s war payments over a longer period of time to alleviate Germany’s financial problems

Question 16

David Lloyd George

Answer 16

British prime minister who wanted to see Germany punished but not too severely in order that Germany could revive industrially and become a trade partner again

Question 17

Fourteen Points

Answer 17

President Wilson’s plan for a peace settlement, which called upon the Allies not to take revenge on the defeated powers

Question 18

Locarno Pact

Answer 18

Treaty that Germany signed with France and Belgium that she agreed to to recognise her present borders as being permanent

Question 19

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 19

Document that pledged to use arbitration rather than force to settle disputes among the sixty-two nations that signed

Question 20

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 20

French premier known as “Old Tiger” whose main concern was the security of France and so he desired to keep Germany militarily weak and wanted them to pay for the war

Question 21

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 21

German two-front war strategy

Question 22

Treaty of Brest Litovsk

Answer 22

German-Russian agreement that took Russia out of the war

Question 23

Whose assassination trigger WWI

Answer 23

Francis Ferdinand

Question 24

Ferdinand Foch

Answer 24

Commander in chief of the Allied forces in France who stopped the German advance in 1918

Question 25

Armistice

Answer 25

Agreement to cease fire

Question 26

Bismarck System

Answer 26

German attempts to isolate France

Question 27

Britain entered the war when

Answer 27

German forces marched into neutral Belgium