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).
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?
Anger, bitterness, frustration, humiliation, mad at new German government (Weimar).
Their participation in WWI led them to increase demands for independence.
What are colonies?
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?
What is Russia?
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?
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 (33billion 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?