treaties

• treaty of st germain sept 1919 (austria)

  • new countries created (czechoslovakia and yugoslavia) bc many ethnicities wanted self determination
  • austrian army limited to 30,000 men
  • no navy no conscription
  • reparations agreed but not paid due to economic collapse
  • cannot join with germany
  • economic ties severed, undermined them
• treaty of st neuilly sept 1919 (bulgaria)

  • land lost to yugoslavia, greece etc
  • lost access to aegean sea
  • £100 million in reparations
  • no airforce, 20,000 men, no conscription
  • recognised kingdom of battleships
  • serbs croats and slovenes
• treaty of trianon june 1920 (hungary)

  • lost 2/3 of land to neighbouring countries
  • article 61-66 deprived the people outside of new neighbours of nationality
  • economic chaos (austria and hungary cant depend on one another)
  • austria produced industrial, hungary produced agricultural
  • no interdependence
  • 30,000 men army, no conscription, 3 patrol boats
• treaty of sevres aug 1920 (turkey)

  • ottoman empire split up
  • palestine became british mandate, syria and lebanon french mandates
  • dardanelles and bosphorus straits internationalised
  • allies got control to vital economic institutions
  • army reduced to 50,000 men, 7 sail boats, 6 torpedos
  • gov rejected and demanded negotiation
• treaty of lausanne jul 1923 (turkey)

  • agreed due to allies exhausted from war
  • proved to hitler and the world that treaties could be ignored/renegotiated if u have power
  • some territories still given away
  • turkish territory expanded
  • independence for armenia + kurdistan abandoned
  • sevres seen as humiliation
  • turkish sovereignty recognised over straits
  • straits still managed internationally
  • agreed to minor economic impact
  • reparations cancelled
• washington arms conference 1921-22

  • disarmament encouraged, limited arms race
  • 26 american, 16 japanese, 24 british warships scrapped
  • reduced warship weight and regulated submarine use
  • treaties only lasted 14 yr + bypassed league
• treaty of rapallo 1922

  • russo-german agreement
  • territorial and diplomatic claims renounced against eachother
  • increased military cooperations
  • non memebrs of LoN
  • german-USSR ties angered allies