WWI -> WWII Review

Payment for damages after a war is called

• Demilitarization
• Self-determination
• Reparations

Where did the Allied Powers meet to create a treaty at the end of WWI?

• Berlin, Germany
• Versailles, France
• Congress of Vienna
• the United States

Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?

• Britain
• Ottoman Empire
• Germany
• Russia

How did the German people react to the Treaty of Versailles?

• They were ok with it because they realized that they lost the war
• They loved it because it was so favorable to them
• They hated it because it treated them severely
• Most Germans didn't really care

Why were reparations introduced by the Allies?

• So the French could invade the Ruhr
• To fund hyperinflation
• To pay for the war damage
• So the Weimar government could be popular

True or false?  Germany had to get rid of its air force, submarines, and large battleships due to the Treaty of Versailles.

• True
• False

What did the the major European victors want from the Treaty of Versailles?

• to help Germany rebuild its economy
• to punish Germany for its role in WWI
• to establish lasting world peace in the future
• to punish Russia for its role in WWI

What was a result of the harsh conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I?

• economic and political instability in Germany
• uprisings during the French Revolution
• the development of democracy in Italy
• the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Totalitarianism is a form of government that

• asserts total control over the lives of its citizens

• allows for individuality

• equality distributes the wealth of the nation to its people

• does not have any historical examples

Soviet (Russian) leader Joseph Stalin

• created a cult of personality

• executed anyone he saw as a threat to his power

• was chosen by Lenin to succeed him

• made the people of the Soviet Union (Russia) equal