level: The conference
Questions and Answers List
level questions: The conference
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Roughly how many people died as a result of the First World War? | 16 million |
| In 1918 Woodrow Wilson made speech to Congress outlining | fourteen points which he believed should be the guidelines for peace and a means to ending the First World War. |
| Leader of USA at Versailles | Woodrow Wilson |
| Leader of UK at Versailles | David Lloyd George |
| Leader of France at Versailles | George Clemenceau France |
| Aims of Clemenceau | Cripple Germany to make sure that it was never powerful enough to attack France again Reduce Germany’s armed forces Reduce German territory. Germany to pay compensation to France. |
| Aims of Lloyd George | Keep Germany quite strong so that Britain could trade with it. Stop other countries in Europe from becoming too powerful. Gain Germanys colonies. Reduce the German navy to stop it from rivalling Britain’s. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Set up world parliament called the League of Nations. Self-determination. Freedom of the seas. |
| Armistice | agreement that countries at war make to stop fighting immediately |
| During the war the Allies (Britain, France and the USA) had made lots of promises | to different countries in return for their support. |
| The ‘Big three’ met in Versailles in January 1919 for a period of | 12 months |
| As a result of WW1 Imperial Russia went from a monarchy to | a Communist dictatorship |
| The losing alliance [Triple Alliance] consisted of | Germany, The Austria-Hungarian Empire, The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) |
| The Austria-Hungarian Empire lost | 72% of its territory, 64% of its population after WW1 |