History - Making of the Modern World and Australia

In Test 1 and Exam 2

What was the Paris Peace Conference?

• January 1919, 32 countries sent delegates - held in French palace of Versailles

• Conference was to decide many issues around the world and resulted in six major new treaties - called the Versailles Settlement

• Supposed to ensures world peace and prosperity forever

Who were the ‘Big Three’ and what was the attitude of each have towards Germany?

• Georges Clemenceau (France) 😡

  • Wanted Germany to suffer due to the casualties they caused his country - extremist views

• David Lloyd (UK) 😐

  • Agreed that Germany was dangerous and needed punishing - realistic views

• Woodrow Wilson (USA) 🙂

  • Believed Germany must be punished (but not to harshly) → fairly - idealistic views

What were the main provisions of the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany had to accept guilt for causing the war (War Guilt Clause).

• Germany was required to pay reparations to the Allies.

• Germany's military was significantly reduced, limiting its army to 100,000 troops.

• Germany lost territory, including Alsace-Lorraine to France and parts of Prussia to Poland.

• The League of Nations was established to promote peace, although Germany was initially excluded.

What were the main elements of Nazi ideology?

ideas, e.g. lebensraum

What was the impact of the Depression on Germany?

How did the Depression help the Nazis?

What were Hitler’s foreign policy aims?

how it infleunced them conflicting

What did he do to achieve these aims between 1933 and 1939?

What was Anschluss?

What was the Sudeten Crisis?

How far had Hitler achieved these aims by 1933?

Did not - yet to invade russia (1941)