Meet the Big Three
This president represented the United States at the Paris Peace Conference.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This meeting was held to establish peace terms after World War I.
What was the Paris Peace Conference?
The first “G” in G.A.R.G.Le. represents Germany accepting this.
What is guilt or blame for the war?
This German region was demilitarized to create a security buffer for France.
What was the Rhineland?
The Treaty of Versailles punished this defeated country.
What was Germany?
Austria’s army was limited to this many soldiers.
What is 30,000?
Wilson wanted a fair peace partly because the United States suffered this compared with France.
What was limited damage at home?
This French leader wanted Germany punished and weakened.
Who was Georges Clemenceau?
The United States entered World War I in this year.
What was 1917?
This article of the Treaty of Versailles placed formal war guilt on Germany.
What was Article 231?
Germany lost all of these overseas possessions.
What were its colonies?
The Treaty of St. Germain dealt with this country.
What was Austria?
Bulgaria’s army was limited to this many soldiers.
What is 20,000?
Clemenceau wanted German weakness because France had experienced these three wartime hardships.
What were invasion, deaths, and destruction?
This British leader tried to balance punishment with trade and European stability.
Who was David Lloyd George?
This term means the right of people to choose or form their own nation.
What is self-determination?
This term means reducing a country’s armed forces and weapons.
What is disarmament?
Germany was forbidden from forming a political union with this country.
What was Austria?
The Treaty of Neuilly dealt with this country.
What was Bulgaria?
Hungary’s army was limited to this many soldiers.
What is 35,000?
Lloyd George feared that completely destroying Germany would harm British trade and this condition in Europe.
What is stability?
His plan for a fair postwar settlement was called the Fourteen Points.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This organization was created to help countries resolve disputes and prevent future wars.
What was the League of Nations?
Germany’s army was limited to this many volunteer soldiers.
What is 100,000?
Germany lost approximately this percentage of its coalfields.
What is 16 percent?
The Treaty of Trianon dealt with this country.
What was Hungary?
Under Sèvres, Turkey’s army was limited to this many soldiers.
What is 50,000?
Austria and Hungary both suffered major losses of these two things.
What are land and population?
Because his country had been invaded and heavily damaged, this leader made French security a priority.
Who was Georges Clemenceau?
True or false: Germany helped negotiate the Treaty of Versailles.
What is false? Germany was excluded from negotiations and forced to accept the treaty.
Germany was forbidden from using this system of requiring citizens to serve in the military.
What is conscription?
Germany lost approximately this percentage of its iron-and-steel industry.
What is 50 percent?
The Treaty of Sèvres originally dealt with this defeated empire.
What was the Ottoman Empire or Turkey?
This was the only defeated country that completely paid its required reparations.
What was Bulgaria?
In addition to losing land and population, Austria and Hungary experienced these serious problems.
What are economic problems?
He wanted Germany punished but also wanted Germany to remain a useful trading partner.
Who was David Lloyd George?
Germany had to sign the Treaty of Versailles or face the renewal of this.
What was war or military fighting?
Germany had to make these payments to cover Allied war costs and damages.
What are reparations?
Name three consequences found in most of the WWI peace treaties.
What are military limits, territorial losses, and reparations?
Turkish nationalists rejected Sèvres and negotiated this replacement treaty.
What was the Treaty of Lausanne?
This defeated country paid no reparations under the Treaty of Sèvres.
What was Turkey or the Ottoman Empire?
Which country arguably received the harshest settlement? Give two supporting details.
Germany: Possible evidence includes war guilt, reparations, military restrictions, and major territorial and industrial losses.
Compare Wilson and Clemenceau’s goals at the Paris Peace Conference.
Wilson wanted a fair, lasting peace, while Clemenceau wanted Germany severely punished to protect France.
Germany’s harsh treatment of this country in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk helped convince the Allies that Germany deserved punishment.
What was Russia?
Explain the letters in G.A.R.G.Le.
What are Guilt, Armed forces limited, Reparations, German territories lost, and League of Nations?
Identify three Treaty of Versailles terms that weakened Germany.
Answers may include army limits, no conscription, a demilitarized Rhineland, reparations, territorial losses, loss of colonies, or war guilt.
Match all five treaties to their countries.
What are Versailles—Germany, St. Germain—Austria, Neuilly—Bulgaria, Trianon—Hungary, and Sèvres—Ottoman Empire/Turkey?
Give one example proving that the defeated countries were not punished equally
Example: Germany accepted formal war guilt, while Turkey paid no reparations and later gained better terms under Lausanne.
Were the WWI peace treaties fair? Give a judgment, compare two treaties, and use three specific details.
Answers will vary but must make a clear judgment, compare two treaties, and provide three accurate details.