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Treaty of Versailles Webquest Directions: Using the websites provided, answer each of the following questions. You do not have to use complete sentences, when applicable. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/versailles_01.shtml 1. How many countries were represented at the Paris negotiations in January 1919? 32 countries 2. What was President Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan called? Fourteen Points 3. Who were the “Big Four?” David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, President Woodrow Wilson. 4.

What were some of the losses suffered by as a result of the Treaty of Versailles? Land was taken, financial impact; cost of the war, political impact; stabbing people in the back.

5. What clause in particular left the Germans feeling like they were “stabbed in the back?” by the victors? This 'stab in the back' had prevented the gallant soldiers from securing the victory which was almost in their grasp. Thus a treaty which not only confirmed German defeat, but which, in clause 231, justified its demands for punitive war costs by laying the blame for the outbreak of the war firmly on German shoulders, was bound to provoke fury. was a country which saw itself as having been encircled by , Russia and Britain in 1914 and provoked into war.

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/1920s/VersaillesTreatyCarlos.htm 6. What percentage of German territory was taken away? What happened to all of ’s colonies? 13.5% of its territory, was taken for its coal mines, Poland, Belgium.

7. Why did the Allies include the “War Guilt Clause?” What were the political consequences of this clause? They wanted to be punished, consequence would be it caused lasting resentment in , humiliation and rage.

8. How much in reparations was forced to pay? 6,000 million

9. Why did the French invade the Ruhr in 1923? What were the political consequences of this in ? wanted to repay war debts with German capital, consequence was parties were given rights left and right which caused economic collapse and social disorder. 10. What future German leader and former soldier (he did fight in World War I) was particularly upset by the Treaty of Versailles? Hitler

11. Who did he blame for ’s defeat? Jewish politicians 12. In what ways did Hitler break the of the Treaty of Versailles? He disregarded Treaty of Versailles when he took out of League of Nations, started rearming in 1933, he united with Austria, he then negotiated with the British Prime Minister Chamberlain, he took the rest of Czechoslovakia.

Processing: Answer the essential question using ACES. Summary of the Treaty of Versailles: was harshly punished for the war. Adolf Hitler and the NAZI party would use this to their advantage in their rise. Is it fair to say the Treaty of Versailles caused World War II? Why or why not? Yes, the Treaty of Versailles caused WW1 due to the fact that, it caused colonial losses such as economically, military, and territorially. “During the War many millions of people in the World died”. There was many death in WW1, all because of the Treaty which literally kind of was against .