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Making the Peace
Question | Answer |
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Pandemic | The spread of a disease across a large area. |
Reparations | Payments for war damages |
Radicals | People who wanted to make extreme changes. |
Collective Security | A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all. |
Mandate | Territories administered by Western powers. |
Britain Prime Minister David Lloyd George | Promised to build a post-war Britain "Fit for Heroes" |
Georges Clemenceau | French leader who had the post-war goal of making Germany weak so that it could never again threaten France. "Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points" |
President Woodrow Wilson | Urged for "Peace without victory" based on his fourteen points. |
Three Problems that emerged at the Paris Peace Conference | 1. Secret Agreements 2. ethnic groups became unwanted minorities in newly created states. 3. Other representatives circled the "Big three" with their own set of demands. |
What impact would this treaty have on the future of European politics? | the Treaty of Versailles poisoned the national climate for 20 years and sparked WWII. |
List three new republics that emerged in 1919. | Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Histonia |
The purpose of the League of Nations | To negotiate disputes instead of going to war. |
Who had the idea for the League of Nations and what Nation did not join? | Woodrow Wilson; The U.S. did not join |