Unit One > Chapter 8

Basic Knowledge Guide:

I. LITERAL COMPREHENSION.

1. Who were the Big Three who made the major decisions in Paris?

2. What was the French aim at the conference?

3. What was the US aim at the conference?

4. What was the British prime minister Lloyd George's view of how Germany should be treated?

5. What was his main reason for wanting to treat Germany that way?

6. When was the peace treaty with Germany signed?

7. How many African colonies did Germany lose?

8. In what way did Germany feel cheated by the Big Three?

9. How many "successor states" emerged out of the old empires of Austria-Hungary and Russia?

10. What was the effect on Russia of the formation of these successor states?

11. Why did much dissatisfaction arise in the "successor" countries after they had been set up?

12. What opportunity, suggested in Wilson's 3rd point, which might have prevented further conflict, was thrown away?

13. Over what area did Poland and Czechoslovakia argue?

14. What nation did Poland attack in 1920?

II. INFERENTIAL COMPREHENSION. Read between the lines to determine if the following statements are true or false.

15. Article 231, in effect, laid all the blame for starting the war on Germany.

16. Germany lost the Rhineland.

17. Poland's foreign policy after WWI was not wiae.

III. APPLICATION. Use your own knowledge in addition to the text to determine whether the following statement is true or false.

18. The processes started by the Peace of Paris have not yet stopped.

Memory aid: Terms of the Treaty of Versailles

D isarmament

R eparations

A lsace

G uilt

C olonies

A nschluss

R hineland

S aar

Links:

Significance of Versailles: SchoolHistory's revision page on the Peace of Paris with links to other good revision sites. http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/versailles.shtml

Verdicts on the Treaty - John Clare's revision page on the Big Four and what they got or failed to get in the Peace of Paris. http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties6.htm

The first page of John Clare's site on the Paris Peace Treaties. http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties1.htm

Map of Europe 1920, showing the Versailles settlement

Problems facing the Big Three at the Paris Peac eTalks. A worksheet.