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The Costs of War
The Paris Peace Conference
The Treaty of Versailles
Outcome of the Peace Settlements
Vocabulary
100
These countries were forced to make reparations after the war.
What are the Central Powers?
100
This organization was founded on the principle of collective security.
What is the League of Nations?
100
The Treaty of Versailles.
What is the treaty composed by the allies at the end of WWI?
100
These regions hoped the Paris Peace Conference would grant them independence, but were let down.
What are the European colonies?
100
A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all
What is collective security?
200
These troops held a cynical view of European powers after the war.
What are the colonial troops?
200
This leader of an allied country pushed for "peace without victory" at the conference.
Who is President Wilson?
200
June 1912
When was the Treaty of Versailles drawn up?
200
This senator led the fight against the United States joining the League of Nations?
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
200
The spread of disease across a large area
What is a pandemic?
300
This country had the largest percentage of unharmed soldiers.
What is the United States?
300
The agreement between the Allies and Italy promised that Italy would gain lands from this country.
What is Germany?
300
Lorraine and Alsace
What are the lands returned to France by Germany as a result of the treaty?
300
This is what the mandates actually became in practice.
What are European colonies?
300
Reparations
What are payments for war damage?
400
20 million people killed by it.
What is the influenza pandemic of 1918?
400
These leaders were known as "The Big Three."
Who are Wilson, George, and Clemenceau?
400
This was the total amount of money paid by Germany for reparations.
What is $30 billion?
400
New countries formed in the Hapsburg heartland by the treaty
What are Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary?
400
Mandate
What are territories administered by Western powers?
500
These countries were in political turmoil at the end of the war while radicals attempted to take control.
What are Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire?
500
George Clemenceau of France had this goal in mind all throughout the conference.
What is the weakening of Russia so that it can never threaten France again?
500
This caused a lasting hatred between Germany and the rest of Europe that would help to bring about WWII.
What is Germany's resentment of the Treaty of Versailles?
500
This was the general feeling towards the Treaty by the other Central Powers and other nations?
What is disappointment and dissatisfaction?
500
Radicals
What are people who want to make extreme changes to a government?