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228601-26670000Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 key wordsPeace makingClemenceauPrime Minister of FrancePresident WilsonPresident of AmericaLloyd GeorgePrime Minster of BritainTreaty of VersaillesTreaty signed with Germany at the end of WW1.ReparationsGermany had to make amends for WW1 by paying money. ArmisticeInitial agreement to stop fighting during a war. Countries then work out a treaty of peace.AlliesAre friends.Saar Important industrial part of GermanyDiktatForced to do somethingDemilitarised ZoneCould not put any men or soldiers in an area. AnschlussUnion between Germany and AustriaAbdicateRenounce/give up a throne.ColoniesLand that is taken over and controlled by another country.Stab in the Back TheoryThe myth that the German army was stabbed in the back by the German government that they could have carried on fighting, at the end of WW1.‘The Big Three’Representatives of the most powerful victorious countries who met at the Paris Pearce conference. ClauseA term in a treaty or a legal agreement32861252984500The League of Nations and International PeaceAssemblyA group of powerful countries which ran the league of nations.Collective securityWorking together to keep the peace.CouncilMembers of the league of nations who met once a year to discuss and vote.Economic sanctionsPunishing a country by stopping trade with them. CovenantAn agreement the covennt of the league of nations set up what the league was, and what members could expect to happen under it.Foreign MinisterA politician responsible for a country’s relationship with other countries.Fourteen PointsList of rules which aimed to create fairness and peace.Halle SelassieTitle of the ruler of EthiopiaInternational Labour Organisation (ILO)Agency of the league of nations established to improve working conditions.IsolationismA policy in which a country does not want to get involved in foreign affairs.League of NationsFormed under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, a group of countries which worked together towards global peace and cooperation. Locarno TreatyAn agreement signed in 1925, which allowed Germany to join the league of nations.DisarmamentThe reduction or limitation of weaponsMandate A former colony that was assigned to the league of nations to be governed, until it could look after itself.Moral CondemnationTo tell someone that they are wrong.PactAn agreementPermanent Court of International JusticeAn international law court set up by the league of nations.PlebisciteWhen the people of the country, not just politicians vote on a matter.RearmamentTo build up weapons and armed forces.Self determinationThe idea that countries should be able to govern themselves rather than being ion an empire. UnanimousWhen everyone agreesVetoThe right to reject a proposalSlaveryWhen a person is owned by another and forced to work without pay. The league succeeded in banning slavery in Sierra Leone.RefugeeSomeone who flees from their homeland because it is not safe to live there anymore.SecretariatThe league of nations bureaucrats, people who implemented the decisions that the Assembly and Council made.HumanitarianHelping PeopleUpper SilesiaBorder between Germany and Poland in 1921, there was a plebiscite who would own Upper Silesia. Area split according to how the people had voted.VilnaDispute between Poland and Lithuania in 1920, about who was going to own Vilna the capital of Lithuania. A Polish army took control of the city and refused to follow the leagues instruction to leave. Corfu IncidentAn Italian general Tellini was murdered on the border of Greece and Albania, Mussolini blamed Greece. He invaded Greece, Greece appealed to the league who said Greece should pay Mussolini compensation.Abyssinian CrisisIn 1935 Mussolini invaded AbyssiniaManchurian CrisisIn 1931 in the ‘Murkden incident’ Japan blamed China for a bomb on a railway they owned in Manchuria, it led to Japan invading.Kellogg-Briand PactIn 1928 a pact between 62 countries agreeing not to use war to solve disputes.3829050-6667500Origins and the outbreak of the Second World WarHitlerLeader of Germany in 1933MussoliniLeader of ItalyStalinLeader of USSRRhinelandArea between France and Germany that Hitler reoccupied in 1936.AnschlussJoining of Austria and Germany in 1938.SchuschniggLeader of Austria in 1934Seyss-InquaryNazi in Austria who became leader in 1938, just before the Anschluss.SudetenlandLand in CzechoslovakiaAppeasementPolicy of giving someone what they want in the hope it will avoid war.ChamberlainPrime Minster of Britain 1937-1940Edouard DaladierPresident of France in the 1930’s.Stresa FrontAn agreement between Britain, France and Italy in 1935 to unite against Hitler.DepressionAn economic state, when a country has little nor no money.LebansraumLiving space in Eastern Europe.Munich AgreementSeptember 1938 an agreement where the Sudetenland was given to Hitler.Rome-Berlin AxisAn agreement between Italy and Germany in 1936 which linked the two countries.Anti-Comintern PactA pact in 1936 between Germany and Japan against Communism RearmingBuilding up weaponsNazi soviet PactAgreement between USSR and Germany in 1938 to divide Poland between themselves. ................
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