Topics:
1. Treaty of Versailles
What was it? Who was there?
- Treaty that ended WWI
- created by the Big 4
- Main goal was to punish Germany
- created at Paris Peace conference
what were major points of Treaty of Versailles and other treaties of WWI
New countries formed
- Finland
- Lithuania
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Poland
- Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia
- Austria asked to be part of Germany
- The new countries led to a lot of problems
Germany's Territorial Consequences
- lost land to
- France
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Czechoslovakia
- Poland
- Germany had to give land back to Russia that was given to them in Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- League of Nations took control of Germany's overseas colonies
Military Consequence
- Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men
- army wasn't allowed to have tanks
- weren't allowed to have air force
- no submarines, reduced naval size
- No German troops in Rhineland(area between France and Germany)
- US had troops in Rhineland area which was a DMZ(Demilitarized zone)
Financial Consequence
- had to pay 33 billion dollars to allies(mainly Great Britain and France)
- weren't allowed to join with Austria to form one country
- lost land that had resources and industries
General Consequences
- Germany had to take full responsibility for WWI
- League of Nations was set up
- world peace-keeping organization
- wanted Treaty of Versailles to be the "treaty to end all wars"
US never signed the Treaty of Versailles
- congress never signed it
- US never joined League of Nations
- didn't want to become involved in European Wars
- didn't want League of Nations to have control over US and when we could declare war
- didn't join and went back to isolationism
2. Peace attempts of the 1920's/30's
3. Germany's(Hitler's) defiance of the Treaty of Versailles and conquests prior to the invasion of Poland, 1933-1939
4. Italy's(Mussolini's) conquests of the 1930's
5. Japanese conquests prior to Pearl Harbor
6. US attempts of neutrality in the 1930's and early 1940's
Possible Test Questions:
What are some aggressive acts of Hitler during WWII?
What was the compromise reached at Munich?
What did they think would happen if they gave Hitler Sudetenland?
What other territories did Hitler take over?
What was the Auslauss with Austria? Why wasn't it a huge surprise?
What message was sent when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia?
When did Britain and France declare war on Germany?
What are some aggressive acts of Italy during WWII?
What countries did Italy take over?
What did Japan do prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What happened between Japan and China that caused bad blood?
What was the Spanish Civil war's importance to Hitler?
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