REVISION IGCSE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY: TREATY OF LAUSANNE.

1. TREATY OF
LAUSANNE
IGCSE HISTORY
REVISION

2. DEFINITION
Treaty of Lausanne was signed in 1923 and it was a peace agreement
between Turkey and the Allies that replaced the Treaty of Sevres.

3. What led the Turks to refuse the terms
of the Treaty of Sevres?

4. Answer 1
Sevres punished Turkey harshly. The Turks resented the loss of control
of Constantinople to the League of Nations.

5. Question 2
What were the main provision of the
Treaty of Lausanne?

6. Answer 2
Turkey got back Eastern Thrace and Smyrna, land lost to Greece at
Sevres. Constantinople and some of the old colonies were returned and
demands for Turkish war reparations and disarmament were dropped.

7. Question 3
“The immediate significance of the Treaty
of Lausanne was limited to territorial
gains and losses”. True or false?

8. Answer 3
False. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s challenge to Sevres also marked the end
of the old Turkish (Ottoman) Empire.

9. Question 4
Did Turkey’s successful challenge to the
Treaty of Sevres lead to better or worse
relations with the victorious allies?

10. Answer 4
Better relations. Turkey was no longer seen as a defeated enemy but as
a victor that had won its independence.

11. Important
Kemal’s refusal to consider the Treaty of Sevres binding, and its
subsequent replacement by the Treaty of Lausanne, demonstrated that
the Paris treaties could be challenged successfully.