Members
This person was President of United States during World War 1
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This city is where the treaty with Germany was negotiated and written.
What is Paris?
Article 231 of the Treaty said that this country was responsible for causing the war.
What is Germany? (War Guild Clause)
These are four new (or returning) countries in Europe after WWI.
What are Poland, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland (also Turkey is acceptable).
These are three new (or "improved") weapons of war that helped make World War I so deadly.
What are tanks, long-range artillery, submarines, poison gas, airplanes, machine guns, flamethrower, various types of grenades?
This person was Prime Minister of France during WWI
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
This is the name of Woodrow Wilson's postwar peace plan, which Germany expected the treaty to be based on.
What is the Fourteen Points?
This is the unofficial name of the German state created after the Great War, named after the city of its founding.
What is the Weimar Republic (or Weimar Government)?
Their participation in WWI led them to increase demands for independence.
What are colonies?
This country is the only attendee at the Peace Conference that refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles because its territory wasn't returned to it after it was taken from Germany.
What is China? (the US delegate signed the treaty, but the US Senate never ratified it).
This person was Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI.
Who is David Lloyd George?
The first article in the Treaty of Versailles called for the creation of this organization.
What is The League of Nations?
This country emerged from WWI as a powerful (and wealthy) state but did not end up joining the League of Nations.
What is the United States?
A revolution in this country led to its exit from the War before it ended.
What is Russia?
Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts fought in this US Army unit and were awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government.
What is the Harlem Hellfighters?
This country's Prime Minister was one of the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference but left early due to frustration (and came back later to sign the treaty).
What is Italy? (Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando)
This principle states that people have the right to form their own states and governments if they wish to do so.
What is the principle of self-determination?
Who is Adolph Hitler?
These four empires ended as a consequence of WWI.
What are German, Russian, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman?
Towards the end of the war, this international tragedy was censored in combatant countries but became widely publicized when the King of Spain became one of its victims.
What is the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920.
These two Asian countries were frustrated with the terms of the treaty after they'd supported the Allies during WWI.
What are Japan and China.
Article 22 of the Treaty said that this would happen to a number of colonies of the states who lost the war.
What is they would be "tutored" by "advanced nations" before they could become independent? (mandate system)
These are five of the harsh terms imposed upon Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
1. disarmament/demilitarization; 2. reparations (33 billion dollars); 3. War Guilt. 4. Loss of overseas colonies. 5. Loss of the Ruhr Valley (coal production) for 15 years. 6. loss of territory in Europe.
This is the name of colonial territories handed over to League of Nations member-states by the Treaty of Versailles.
What are mandates?
This term refers to the young people who came of age during and right after World War I and felt disillusioned by the destruction and meaninglessness of the war.
What is the Lost Generation?
"disoriented, wandering, directionless"