WWI Flashcards
(28 cards)
League of Nations
First attempt at peace
League had no armed forces or authority
Post WWI Diplomacy
Germany embittered by the Treaty of Versailles
Idealism
U.S. sought isolationism
Reparations created
The reparation-war debt cycle
Post War Problems
Britain: Economy suffer (coal industry) Unemployment Welfare state Government Dole
France’s Economic Success
Small business decreased unemployment
New factories replaced old ones destroyed by war
Alsace-Lorraine territory had natural resources
France’s Politics
Too many political parties, none could gain enough favour
Constantly changing prime minister’s
Socialist and Communist political parties
France and Germany post war
France remained wary of Germany
Created Maginot Line
Britain and USA refused to aid France
The Great Depression
Collapse of stock market Decline of foreign trade Drop of prices Failure of banks Closed factories High unemployment
Treaty of Versailles Territorial Provisions
Return Alsace-Lorraine to France and other land to Belgium and Denmark
Independent Polish nation
Germany lost all Asian and African colonies
Economic Provisions of Versailles Treaty
Coal from Germany sent to Allied nations and German ships are sent to Allies
German Reparations
Military Provisions of Versailles Treaty
Germany Army= 100,000 men maximum
Rhineland remained demilitarised
No tanks, no guns, no air crafts, no submarines, only six warships
War Guilt Clause
Blamed Germany and its Allied forces for the war
Why was Germany embittered?
They felt it was unjust to shoulder all the blame of the war
Treaty of St. Germain
Austria gave territory to Italy
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia become independent
Treaty of Sevres
Dismantled the Ottoman Empire
Middle Eastern Territories become French and English colonies
Demilitarised straights near Turkey
Charles Dawes
American banker who initiated a plan to spread Germany’s war payments over a longer period of time to alleviate Germany’s financial problems
David Lloyd George
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
Fourteen Points
President Wilson’s plan for a peace settlement, which called upon the Allies not to take revenge on the defeated powers
Locarno Pact
Treaty that Germany signed with France and Belgium that she agreed to to recognise her present borders as being permanent
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Document that pledged to use arbitration rather than force to settle disputes among the sixty-two nations that signed
Georges Clemenceau
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
Schlieffen Plan
German two-front war strategy
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
German-Russian agreement that took Russia out of the war
Whose assassination trigger WWI
Francis Ferdinand
