Ch23Sec4GR

Guided Reading 23-4

1. Allied _____________________ on the Western Front had been badly defeated.

2. The entry of the United States into the war in 1917 gave the Allies a much-needed _____________________ boost.

3. The withdrawal of the Russians allowed Germany to concentrate on the _____________________.

4. After William II’s departure, the _____________________ in Germany under Friedrich Ebert announced the creating of a _____________________ republic.

5. An attempt at revolution left the German middle class with a deep fear of _____________________.

6. _____________________ among the nations that succeeded Austria-Hungary would weaken eastern Europe for the next 80 years.

7. In January 191, representatives of 27 victorious Allied nations met in _____________________ to make a final settlement of the Great War.

8. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson portrayed World War I as a people’s war against “_____________________ and _____________________.”

9. David Lloyd George, prime minister of _____________________, had a simple platform at the Peace Conference: make the Germans _____________________ for the dreadful war.

10. In the _____________________, Germany was ordered to pay reparations for all the damage to which the Allied nations had been subjected.

11. Both the German and Russian empires lost considerable _____________________ and the Austro-Hungarian Empire _____________________ altogether.