The treaty and fairness (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards

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The treaty and fairness
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Treaty of Versailles

1919 peace treaty with Germany after WWI

Diktat

Dictated peace; Germany couldn't negotiate terms

Wilson's Fourteen Points promised

Fair & just post-war settlement

War guilt clause effect

Germany forced to accept full responsibility for war

Germans displaced by new borders

Approx. 6 million in new countries as minorities

Treaty of Sèvres demonstrated

Harsh terms were unenforceable & counterproductive

German reparations paid

Only small fraction of what was owed

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Harsh 1918 treaty Germany imposed on Russia

Brest-Litovsk took from Russia

Over 1/4 of population & agricultural land

1919 view of peace treaties

Generally popular outside Germany

1930s view on Versailles

Harsh treatment blamed for creating extremism conditions

New nations instability examples

Yugoslavia war 1991; Czechoslovakia split 1993

Treaty of Versailles signed

June 1919

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