REVISION IGCSE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY: TREATY OF SAINT-GERMAINE.

1. TREATY OF
SAINT-GERMAIN
IGCSE HISTORY
REVISION

2. DEFINITION
Treaty of Saint Germain Neuilly was signed in 1919 and it is a peace
agreement between Austria and the Allies after the First World War.

3. Question 1
List four main provisions of the treaty.

4. Answer 1
Austria lost territory to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Italy and Romania.
Austria’s population was reduced from a high of 28 million (1914) to 8
million. The army was reduced to 30,000 soldiers. Austria was made
responsible and forced to pay reparations.

5. Question 2
What were the other main terms?

6. Answer 2
Treaty was forbidding the union between Austria and Germany, the so
called Anschluss.

7. Question 3
Why did the Allies want Austria to be
kept permanently weak?

8. Answer 3
Italy feared a resurgence of Austrian power in the region.

9. Question 4
What else was significant about the
treaty?

10. Answer 4
The treaty formalised the break-up of the old Austro-Hungarian
Empire. Other destroyed empires were: the Turkish (Ottoman) and the
Tsarist (Russian) Empire.

11. Important
The harshness of this treaty contributed to the Austrian support for
Hitler after he came to power.