History 29.4
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied Powers after WW1.
How many delegates were representing each country in the Paris Peace Conference?
There were delegates representing 32 countries.
Where did Allies carve up lands that Ottomans lost?
In Southwest Asia.
What did the U.S. considered war to be?
The dominant nation in the world and rejected the treaty.
What is self - determination?
The freedom of people to decide under what form of government they wished to live.
What were the fourteen points?
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting Peace after WW1.
What was the league of nations?
An international association formed after WW1 with the goal of keeping peace among nations.
What was the general association of nations?
An organization that would peacefully negotiate solutions to world problems.
What were the countries created out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia-independent.
Why might the European Allies have been more interested in punishing Germany than in creating a lasting peace?
Because the European Allies suffered more loses, and had their land ruined.
Why did the United States reject the Treaty of Versailles?
Because they were considered to be the dominant nation in the world and believed their best hope for peace was to stay out of European affairs.
What were the sixth though thirteen points?
Changing borders.
What were the first four points of the fourteen points?
End to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reduced national armies and navies.
Who became independent nations?
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
He was the president of the United States, member of the Big Four, and came up with the fourteen points.
When did the Western powers signed separate peace treaties?
In 1920 and 1919.
When did the conference to establish terms began?
It began on January 18, 1919, at the palace of Versailles, outside Paris.
By who was the Versailles Treaty managed by?
It was managed by the Allies.
What was the fourteenth point?
It was the general association of nations.
Were the Versailles treaties fair? Consider all the nations affected.
It wasn't fair because Germany didn't have a say in it and it left a legacy of bitterness and hatred in the German people, America thought the best hope for peace was to stay out of European affairs, and Russia didn't agree either.
When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
On June 28, 1919, five years later.
Who was Georges Clemenceau?
President of France, member of the Big Four.
Who gained Russian territory?
Romania and Poland.
What was the guiding idea behind the fourteen points?
Self-determination that allows people to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live.
What was the "war guilt" clause in the Treaty of Versailles?
Sole responsibility for the war on Germany's shoulders, it meant that Germany had to pay reparations for the Allies.
What was the "war guilt" clause?
Sole responsibility for the war on Germany's shoulders.
What was the goal for Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?
Was self-determination and achieving a just and lasting peace.
Who were the Big Four?
Woodrow Wilson from the United States, Georges Clemenceau from France, David Lloyd George from Great Britain and Vittorio Orlando from Italy.
Was the United States right to reject the Treaty of Versailles? Why or why not?
Yes, because they were the dominant nation in the war and thought their best hope for peace was to stay out of European affairs.