20. Important Terms
1. Germany will pay “war reparations” amounting
to $33 Billion
2. Germany will lost all of its territories
3. Germany will reduced its armed forces and
military expenditures
22. Thailand
• Supplied timber and rubber to the
British
• Thailand stayed neutral until 1917
• Responded to President Wilson’s
invitation to rally to the allied cause
and declared war on July 22, 1917
25. Thailand
• She confined all enemy aliens and
confiscated their properties
• Sent an expeditionary force in
1918
26. Ottoman Empire
• Had a reputation as the “Sick man
of Europe”
• The economic resources of the
Ottoman Empire were depleted by
the cost of the Balkan Wars of 1912-
1913
27.
28. Ottoman Empire
• Wanted to regain her lost
territories
• Joined the war on the side of
the Central Powers
37. China
• China declared itself neutral at the start of the war.
• However, Qingdao had been a colony of German since 1987
38. China
• Starting in late 1916, China Began shipping thousands of men to
Britain, France and Russia
39.
40. Japan
• Japan was a major and growing
industrial power
• The war was a golden opportunity to
expand its territory
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46. 21 Demands
a) Open foreign trade and build railways in Shantung
b) Extension of Japanese control of the railways in Manchuria
c) A joint Sino-Japanese enterprise company; half of the
shares of iron and steel works and mines
d) Chinese coast not to be leased to another foreign power
e) Control of internal affairs
An armed conflict or a period of armed conflict between countries, group of people and individuals
The use of violence and force between two or more states to resolve a matter of disputes.
Britain, Russia France
Germany, Austria, Italy
is a formal, written agreement between sovereign states or between states and international organizations
War is a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation as by land, sea, or air – Merriam Webster
It is called the great war because it was literally greater than in any war before that sharply altered the nations involved with it.
