The Treaty Of Versailles

Question 0

Big three + one

Answer 0

Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Orlando

Question 1

When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 1

28th June 1919

Question 2

Who signed the treaty on behalf of Germany?

Answer 2

Dr Muller and Dr Bell

Question 3

What type of peace did the Germans think that the Treaty of Versailles was?

Answer 3

A dictated peace or DIKTAT

Question 4

Soldiers

Answer 4

100,000 volunteers, no conscription

Question 5

Armoured vehicles?

Answer 5

No planes, tanks or subs

Question 6

Where was the treaty signed

Answer 6

In the Hall of Mirrors

Question 7

Blame for the war

Answer 7

231 war guilt

Question 8

Reparations rate

Answer 8

£6600 million = 2% GNP

Question 9

Ships?

Answer 9

6 battleships or equivalent tonnage

Question 10

Percentages

Answer 10

100% overseas colonies
50% iron and steel
16% coalfields 
12.5% population
10% land

Question 11

Political union?

Answer 11

No Anschluss with Austria

Question 12

Saarland?

Answer 12

Mandated by France for 15years

Question 13

Rhineland?

Answer 13

Becomes a DMZ (demilitarised zone) meaning no troops allowed

Question 14

First 26 clauses?

Answer 14

Dealt with the Covenant of the League of Nations

Question 15

New states created?

Answer 15

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary and Romania.

Question 16

What did Clemenceau want from the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 16

Revenge, to split Germany up, the military destroyed, reparations

Question 17

What did Wilson want from the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 17

Peace, a fair punishment, a League of Nations, the 14 points

Question 18

What did Lloyd George want from the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 18

A fair punishment, the navy destroyed, trade, a buffer zone against communism, to be elected again

Question 19

Germany’s humiliation?

Answer 19

231 war guilt

Question 20

Tiger

Answer 20

Clemenceau

Question 21

Welsh wizard

Answer 21

DLG

Question 22

Policy of Britain before the war?

Answer 22

Splendid Isolationism

Question 23

Debt to the USA

Answer 23

£1 billion

Question 24

What's the alternative name to Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 24

Paris peace conference

Question 25

When was the armistice?

Answer 25

November

Question 26

Danzig

Answer 26

Free port

Question 27

Wilson's points?

Answer 27

Disarmament, self-determination, a League of Nations, free trade between all countries, no secret treaties

Question 28

Treaty was fair?

Answer 28

War caused so much damage, death so it was fair. Germany should have been made weaker so it couldn't go to war again

Question 29

Treaty was harsh?

Answer 29

Germany left too weak and resentful which could lead to anger and cause trouble.

Question 30

Germany hated the treaty because.....?

Answer 30

They couldn't afford reparations, lost industrial areas and could not rebuild, lost pride with no armed forces, didn't accept guilt, economic crisis, lost colonies.

Question 31

St Germain

Answer 31

Austria, 1919

Question 32

Trianon

Answer 32

1920, Hungary

Question 33

Sèvres

Answer 33

1920, Turkey