Post WWI Europe – 0304a - Read pp.614-622
1. _____ Collective security
2. _____ Demilitarize
3. _____ Mandate
4. _____ Reparations
A. A system of international politics where nations pledge to cooperate in their mutual defense.
B. Legal responsibility for running a nation in the place of a locally elected government.
C. Money paid for make up for war damages.
D. To remove arms and armies from an area.
5. _____ Wilson believed that every group of people who thought of themselves as a nation should have a right to control their own country.
6. _____ Many US politicians worried that the idea of collective security could draw the US into war without a declaration of war.
7. _____ The French and the English wanted to make sure not to punish Germany too harshly for WWI in order to avoid a later war.
8. _____ The treaty ending WWI was signed in Louis XIV’s old palace.
9. _____ Only the US wanted to see the League of Nations created at the Versailles conference.
10. _____ The French demanded that the Germans pay a huge fine for WWI.
11. _____ The Germans started WWI.
12. _____ The League of Nations graded colonial countries from A to C to say how ready they were to rule themselves.
13. _____ Europeans assumed that African countries would be some of the first ready for self-rule.
14. _____ After WWI, the US kept troops there to keep a second war from breaking out.
15. _____ The US led the push after WWI to limit arms, especially navies, after WWI.
16. _____ The new map of Europe after WWI saw at least seven “new” countries created.
17. _____ The Austro-Hungarian empire ceased to exist after WWI.
18. _____ Japan and Italy fought on the allied side in WWI and were rewarded handsomely for their efforts in support of the US, France, and England.
19. _____ Because WWI was so expensive, it helped to build up the economies of victorious France and England.
20. _____ Which combatant country suffered the least from WWI? (A) Britain; (B) France;
(C) Russia; (D) Italy; (E) the United States; (F) Germany; (G) Austria-Hungary;
(H) the Ottoman Empire.
21. _____ Which was NOT one of Wilson’s 14 points? (A) no secret treaties; (B) freedom of the seas for all nations; (C) heavy punishment of Germany for starting the war; (D) removal of all international taxes and economic barriers; (E) arms reduction; (F) giving colonized people a say in the way they are controlled; (G) establishment of a “general association of nations.”
22. ______________________ What body in the world today does the League of Nations resemble?