World War I Unit test 2

The Treaty of Versailles resulted directly from the ________________, in which delegates from more than thirty countries met to negotiate the final response to Germany’s defeat.

• Warsaw Pact

• Paris Peace Conference

Many_____________ believed that they had been victimized both by foreign interests and their own government.

• Germans

• Serbians

Delegates at the _______________________ decided to negotiate future conflicts through a League of Nations that would monitor disarmament and judicial arbitration.

• Paris Peace Conference

• Berlin Peace Conference

 

In the 1930s, Germany, Japan, Italy and __________ withdrew their membership from the League or Nations, and the onset of World War II demonstrated that the organization had failed in its most basic objective.

• Japan

• Spain

The Treaty of Versailles required substantial __________________ in the form of German currency, but Germany refused to recognize the validity of these provisions.

• war reparations

• war bonds

Britain acquired control of ________________ in the Versailles Treaty.

• Israel

• Palestine

Arabs were to be rewarded with land confiscated from the Ottomans, while the _________________ proposed a Jewish homeland to be established in Palestine

• Balfour Declaration of 1917

• Paris Peace Conference of 1917

Germany lost possession of the ____________________; this region was envisioned as a "buffer zone" to prevent future conflicts.

• Somme region adjoining Belgium

• Strasbourg region adjoining France

Most of the other ______________ came to regard the reparation measures as too severe.

• Central Powers

• Allied Nations

The British were relieved that Germany had been required to disarm their ________________, which removed the principal threat to Britain's security.

• air force

• naval fleet