germany (individuals) Flashcards
David Lloyd George
Prime Minister 1916-1922
Liberal party
Georges Clemenceau
French pm twice
Wanted a harsh Treaty of Versailles
Served as minister of war
Woodrow Wilson
Didn’t join the LoN because of isolationism
Very lenient terms of the ToV
American president 1912
Friedrich Ebert
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Faced rebellion from far right and far left
Had to lead the transitioning gvmt after Kaiser abdication
Benito Mussolini
Founder of Fascism
Leader of Italy 1922 to 1943
Invaded Abyssinia 1935
Adolf Hitler
German Chancellor 1933
Served in WW1
Mein Kampf 1925
Haile Selassie
Leader of Abyssinia
Emperor from 1941 to 1974
Forced into exile in 1936 when Italy invaded
Samuel Hoare + Pierre Laval
British Secretary of State, French prime minister
Signed Hoare - laval pact 1935
Both forced to resign after Hoare Laval pact news leaked
Lord Lytton
Manchuria report (took a year) 1932
Victor Bulwer Lytton
2nd Earl of Lytton
Kwantung Army
Creating Manchukuo (Japanese puppet state)
1919
From 300,000 to 700,000+
Neville Chamberlain
British Prime minister
1937-1940
Closely associated with appeasement
Josef Stalin
Leader of Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953
Nazi-Soviet pact
Communist party
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Closely related to Britain (queen Victoria grandson)
Forced to abdicate to Netherlands
1918
Socialists/ trade unions under Kaiser
Support for SDP grew under kaiser
Largest party in Reichstag by 1912
Spartacists
Founded 1915
Over 100 killed ‘Bloody week’
Spartacist uprising 1919
Freikorps
Former soldiers
Left unemployed after WW1