Versailles Settlement

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Across
  1. 2. Region on border between France and Germany; after the Versailles Settlement it remained part of Germany but became a demilitarised zone with an Allied military occupation for 15 years
  2. 4. Leader of Great Britain during the post-WWI peace negotiations; sought to protect the British Empire, protect trade, limit threat of communism
  3. 6. Article 231; Germany forced to accept guilt for the First World War
  4. 7. Term used to describe the process of the League of Nations taking control of Germany’s former colonies (e.g. the Cameroons) and allowing Great Britain, France and Japan to govern them on the League’s behalf
  5. 8. Phrase used to describe the leaders of France, Great Britain and the USA during the post-WWI peace negotiations
  6. 9. Leader of the USA during the post-WWI peace negotiations; sought the Fourteen Points, disarmament, self-determination, “fair and lasting peace”
  7. 11. Political union/alliance between Austria and Germany; banned in the Versailles Settlement
  8. 13. Forced participation in a country’s military for a certain number of years; banned in Germany in the Versailles Settlement
  9. 14. Region on the border between France and Germany; taken by Germany from France after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871; given back to France in the Versailles Settlement
  10. 15. Term used to describe the fact Germany had no option but to accept the terms of the Versailles Settlement
  11. 18. Article 232; Germany forced to pay £6,600 million to the Allies (mainly France and Belgium) in yearly instalments
  12. 19. Establishment of nation-states rather than great empires; ambition of Woodrow Wilson during the post-WWI peace negotiations
  13. 21. Leader of France during the post-WWI peace negotiations; sought revenge, security, reparations
  14. 22. March 918; peace treaty signed between Soviet Russia and Germany following Russia's withdrawal from WWI; Russia lost 54% of its industrial lands and 89% of its coalfields
Down
  1. 1. City taken from Germany in the Versailles Settlement to become a ‘Free City’
  2. 3. January 1918; statement of principles of peace that was sought by USA President Woodrow Wilson in the post-WWI peace settlements
  3. 5. Organisation established in the Versailles Settlement; idea of Woodrow Wilson; sought to bring all states in the world as a world parliament and guarantee peace through collective security
  4. 10. Composed of West Prussia, Posen and parts of Upper Silesia; given to Poland from Germany in the Versailles Settlement
  5. 12. Industrial region of Germany; the Versailles Settlement stated that its mining profits were to be given to France for 15 years
  6. 16. 11 November 1918; brought the First World War to an end
  7. 17. June 1919; peace treaty that dealt with Germany following the First World War
  8. 20. Following the Versailles Settlement, Germany was only allowed 100,000 soldiers, six battleships, no heavy artillery, no submarines, no air force, and no conscription