The Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty of Versailles
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TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIMULATION Wilsons Main
Fourteen Points

• TERMS
• No Secret Treaties
• National Self-Determinism
• All nations will cut arms and weapons
• Each country pays for his or her own damages
• Peace without victory
• League of Nations will be formed

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June 1919 Versailles Treaty

• Germany takes ALL the blame or war guilt
• Germany pays huge reparations (damages in )
• to the Allies
• Germany must disarm
• Germany looses territory
• Some new nations created (self-determination)
• League of Nations created

33 Billion Dollars ( 50 million yrly. for 66
years)
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Nov. 1919 U.S. Senate rejects treaty
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Failure of the Versailles Treaty
OR How Hitler Came to
Power in Germany
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Germans see war guilt as unfair

• Hitler promises a rise to greatness

Hitler promises a rise to greatness again and
blames the German government.
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Economic Problems for Germany

• due to high reparations
• Hitler promised to fix

German women feeds Stove with cash vs. using it.
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Disarmament Seems Unfair

• ONLY for Germany, not Allies

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Germany and Russia dont help make the treaty

• dictated peace for Germany (no say)
• leads to important land losses for both

The Big Four, leaders of Allied nations, make the
final decisions.
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Unresolved Self-Determination

• allowed in some lands, not in others
• some borders decided w/o input from people
  of the areas

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No self-determination for Arab states
Ottoman Empire. 1914
Middle East in 1919
Ottoman Empire divided and occupied - France -
dark green Britain -light green
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League of Nation fails

• Russia and Germany not allowed in U.S. does
• not join so weak
• when treaty was broken, didnt enforce