Week 10 Day 1
Class 1- Tuesday March 11, 2014
Lecture Notes: TEAM PRESENTATIONS DAY 1 (FORMATIVE)
· There are given questions from the quiz that our team needs to search the answers
Questions:
1. Four main segments in the TOV? What were this four areas?
- Germany had to accept for starting the war
- Germany had to pay 6.6 billion pound for the damage done during the war
- Germany was forbidden to have submarines and only a navy of 6 ships and an army of 100,000 men
- sGermany lost territory in Europe
2. What is the biggest lost Germany had because of the ToV?
- Germany lost 6.6 billion pound
3. When and Where was the TOV signed?
- It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, Paris, France.
4. What are the condition of the TOV? (example financial how much did Germany have to pay for war. Military what were they limited to, what tanks and military stuff did they have?)
- Germany could only have 100,000 men
- only 6 battleships
- could not build submarines, planes, tanks
- could not keep troops in Rhineland
- allied troops would be stationed in Rhineland for 15 years
- Germany’s colonies were taken away and League of Nations was set up
- Germany lost land to Belgium, France, Denmark, Poland and the League of Nation
- Austria was forbidden to unite with Germany
- Germany should pay 6,6 billion pounds reparations in golds and goods - financial
5. Russia and Germany’s Kaiser had things in common, what are they?
- grandson of Queen Victoria
- their successor was because of Monarchy abolished
- both were emperor
- descendants of a royal family from Europe
- related to Grand Duchess Maria
6. How many months did it take for Germany to finally sign the ToV?
Although the armistice was signed on the 11th of November 1918, it took 6 months of negotiation at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the Peace treaty.
7. Who was the first president of the Weimar Republic?
Friedrich Edbert was the first president of the Weimar Republic, he was the President from 1919 to 1925.
→ small history about Friedrich Edbert
[Ebert was the son of a master tailor. He learned the saddler’s trade and traveled through Germany as a journeyman saddler. He soon became a Social Democrat and trade unionist, representing so-called revisionist—gradualist, liberal—“trade-union” socialism, without, however, displaying a deep interest in the ideological struggles of Marxism. His attention was always directed toward practical improvement in the living conditions of the German working class and, above all, its social and moral betterment.]
8. What does the Weimar Republic have a model on?
On Germany (?)
The constitution was drafted by the lawyer and liberal politician Hugo Preuss, who was then state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, and later became Minister of the Interior. Preuss criticized the Triple Entente decision to prohibit the incorporation of post-Austro-Hungarian-dissolution German Austria into the nascent German republic, saying it was a contradiction of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination of peoples.[1]
Disagreements arose between the delegates over issues such as the national flag, religious education for youth, and the rights of the provinces (Länder) that made up the Reich. These disagreements were resolved by August 1919, though sixty-seven delegates abstained from voting to adopt the Weimar Constitution.
The Republic's first President, Friedrich Ebert, signed the new German constitution into law on August 11, 1919. The constitution is named after Weimar although it was signed into law by Friedrich Ebert in Schwarzburg. This is due to the fact that Ebert was on holiday in Schwarzburg, while the parliament working out the constitution was gathered in Weimar.}
9. What did Germany do that the France such a mess?
- Germany destroyed France’s infrastructure and industry.
10. Stock market crash. Black ____ (Friday) what year did it happen? Has it apply to the Weimar Republic? What is it?
- A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
- It happen on the year 1929.
- Yes. Weimar was crashed by Wall Street Crash on October,
- Black Tuesday in the year 1929, october
- Black Monday in the year 1987
11. Describe the place where the TOV was signed
- The Château de Versailles, is one of the most beautiful achievements of 18th-century French art. The site began as Louis XIII’s hunting lodge before his son Louis XIV transformed and expanded it, moving the court and government of France to Versailles in 1682. Each of the three French kings who lived there until the French Revolution added improvements to make it more beautiful.
- The Hall of Mirrors, the King’s Grand Apartments, the Museum of the History of France. The Château de Versailles, the seat of power until 1789, has continued to unfurl its splendour over the course of centuries. At first it was just a humble hunting lodge built by Louis XIII. But Louis XIV chose the site to build the palace, the symbol of royal absolutism and embodiment of classical French art.
- In the 1670s Louis XIV built the Grand Apartments of the King and Queen, whose most symbolic achievement is the Hall of Mirrors designed by Mansart, where the king put on his most showy displays of royal power in order to impress visitors. The Chapel and Opera were built in the next century under Louis XV.
- The château lost its standing as the official seat of power in 1789 but acquired a new role in the 19th century as the Museum of the History of France, which was founded at the behest of Louis-Philippe, who ascended to the throne in 1830. That is when many of the château’s rooms were taken over to house the new collections, which were added to until the early 20th century, tracing milestones in French history.
12. When did the German finally signed the ToV? and where?
- Germany signed the TOV on the 28th June 1919 at the Versailles Palace , it was considered the most appropriate place simply because of its size- many hundreds of people are involved in the process and the final signing ceremony in the Hall of Mirrors could accommodate hundreds of dignitaries.
13. Germany’s economy rely on several things, what were they?
14. In what countries form the triple entente and triple alliances. Who were the big three?
Triple alliances- Germany , Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple entente- Britain , France and Russia
Big Three - Woodrow Wilson (USA), David Lloyd George (Britain), George Clemenceau (France)
15. Why was it important to take away the overseas army of Germany.
- So that Germany couldn’t attack and start another war again on other countries.
Discussion and Reflection: None
Homework: Study for the Unit exam
