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Flashcards by emilymartin210, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by emilymartin210
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| Question | Answer |
| Biggest issue with League of nations | didn't have support from super powers |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| Allies | Great Britain, France, Italy, USA |
| New weapons in WWI | machine guns, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, submarines |
| Zimmerman Telegram | Telegram from Germany to Mexico asking them to join the war. Intercepted by British and given to the US. US declared war a few days later. |
| Treaty of Versailles: Effects on Germany | lost land, paid reparations, gave up territory, limited military |
| 14 points | self determination, freedom of seas, no alliances, no secret treaties, freedom of trade, end of colonies, a world safe for democracy |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty between Allies and Germany. reparations no air force 100000 soldiers max no german soldiers in rhineland Alsace Lorraine given back to france |
| Hussein-McMahon Letters | state Britain is prepared to recognize and uphold independence of Arabs in all regions lying within the frontier proposed by the Sharif of Mecca |
| Sykes-Picot Agreement | British and France Splits sections of Middle East into British and French Control |
| Zionist Movement | movement for Jewish State |
| Why was Egypt most important British Mandate? | The Suez Canal |
| Little Entente | Worried about Bulgaria Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania |
| Irredentism | desire to recover former territory |
| Wealthiest and most powerful country after WWI | USA |
| Isolationism | Desire to remain separate from foreign affairs |
| President after WWI | Wilson |
| Article X | League of nations provision |
| Economic Consequences after WWI | Europe owed US lots of money Germany faced inflation |
| Dawes Act | financial intervention act by the US in Germany to prevent their economy from collapsing and to help rebuild Europe after WWI |
| Anglo-American Guarantee | US and Britain agree to help France in any aggressive action against it |
| Japan after WWI | had undergone industrial revolution, one of the biggest powers in Asia |
| Manchukuo | Japan changed the name of Manchuria to Manchukuo after they invaded in 1932 |
| Lytton Commission Report | Commission designed to investigate Japan's invasion of Manchuria, they concluded that Japan had used too much force--but they didn't do anything |
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