Unit 7 Review Worksheet
Effects of World War I
Ch. 13 Sec. 4: A Flawed Peace
1. On January 18, 1919, a conference to establish the terms of the peace met at the
_____________________________________.
2. These talks were known as the ________________________________________.
3. List the Big Four leaders next to the country they represented:
a. United States
_______________________________
b. France
_______________________________
c. Great Britain
_______________________________
d. Italy
_______________________________
4. Neither ____________________ nor ____________________ and it allies were
represented at the conference.
5. Wilson’s plan for achieving a just and lasting peace was called the ___________.
6. One of Wilson’s guiding principles was ____________________, which means
allowing people to decide what kind of government they want to live under.
7. ____________________ was determined to punish Germany because of the
suffering they had endured during the war.
8. The compromise agreement that was finally reached was call the _____________.
9. The treaty created a _________________________, whose goal it would be to
keep peace among nations.
10. As a result of the treaty, Germany had to accept sole responsibility for the war and
pay ____________________ to the Allies.
11. Germany also had to return ___________________________ to France.
12. All of Germany’s territories in Africa and the Pacific were declared __________,
or territories to be administered by the League of Nations.
13. Severe limits were also placed on the German military, and they were not allowed
to have ____________________ or an ____________________.
14. ____________________, ____________________, and the _________________
all lost land as a result of treaties after the war.
15. The ____________________ rejected the treaty because many of its people
objected to the settlement and wanted to stay out of European affairs.
16. People in ____________________ and ____________________ were bitter about
the treaty because they were denied independence.
17. Two Allied power, ____________________ and ____________________ were
upset with the treaty because they gained less land than they wanted.
Ch. 15 Sec. 1: An Age of Uncertainty
18. German-born physicist ____________________ offered new ideas on space,
time, energy, and matter.
19. The _________________________ says that while the speed of light is constant,
other things that seem constant, such as space and time, are not.
20. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who treated patients who had
________________________ problems.
21. Freud said much of human behavior is ____________________, or beyond
reason. He called the irrational part of the mind the _______________________.
22. The _________________________ was a term created by Gertrude Stein to
describe writers, musicians and artists who had become disillusioned by the
brutality of World War I.
23. Some thinkers turned to a philosophy known as _____________________, which
is based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices
and actions.
Ch. 15 Sec. 2: A Global Depression
24. Only the ____________________ and _______________ came out of the war in
better financial shape than before.
25. The end of the war saw a rise in new ____________________, as old dynasties
were overthrown.
26. Some countries had a dozen or more political groups, which often led to a
__________________________________, a temporary alliance of several parties
in order to form a government.
27. The new democratic government in Germany was called the ________________.
28. In order to pay for the cost of the war Germany did not _____________________,
instead it _________________________.
29. As a result, the value of the _________________, Germany’s currency, fell
sharply and severe ____________________ set in.
30. In 1924 an international committee came up with the ____________________,
which helped Germany recover from its economic problems by 1929.
31. In 1925 ________________ and ________________ met in Locarno, Switzerland
and signed a treaty promising never again to make war with each other.
32. In 1928 most countries in the world signed the _________________________,
pledging “to renounce was as an instrument of national policy”.
33. In 1929 the three weaknesses in the U.S. economy were:
a.
b.
c.
34. The crash of the U.S stock market in 1929 led to a long business slump called the
________________________.
35. As a result of the stock market crash, billions of dollars of ___________________
simply vanished. Many people lost their life savings.
36. Unemployment began to rise and by 1933 __________________________ of all
Americans had no jobs.
37. The collapse of the ____________________ sent shock waves around the world
and led to a global depression.
38. In 1932, the United States elected _________________________ to be the new
President.
39. The new president’s famous statement, “The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself” was intended to restore _________________________________________.
40. The ____________________ was a program of reform designed to solve the
United States economic problems.