End Of WWI - Germany's Reaction Flashcards
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Reparations - article 232
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- seemed illogical to GR to strip her of wealth
- final sum wasn’t settled until 1921
- GR angry about reparations and refused to sign the T of V.
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War guilt - article 231
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- Blamed Germany and it’s allies for the start of the war
- Germans thought the blame should be shared
- Russia declared war on Germany in 1914
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Diktat
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- dictated peace
- GR thought the peace terms were nothing more than a diktat
- GR not happy with this.
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Disarmament
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- lost navy
- forbidden an Air Force
- allowed no more than100,000 soldiers
- forbidden to station troops or fortifications 50km of the river Rhine
- Rhineland demilitarized
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14points & LON
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- referred to a general reduction in armaments
- suggested people living in colonies ruled by European powers should be consulted about their own future
- germans resented the ToV- this had important consequences.
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Germs territories
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- lost 13% of it’s territory; GR’s in disbelief
- lost the coal mining area of the Saar
- nationalist GR were angry that they lost land to Poland.
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What was the reichstag?
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German army.
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What are 3 PHYSICAL EFFECTS:
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- mood of people: disruptive
- want change
- blame the goverment
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What are 3 of the POLITICAL EFFECTS
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- people were resentful
- needed democracy
- reichstag wanted more power
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Give 1 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT
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•people were bitter and angry
