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WilsonsFourteen Point Plan and Treaty of
Versailles
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WWI

• The war is coming to an end.
• All of the Central Powers have left Germany.
• Germany has been getting leaflets dropped by
  Allied pilots explaining a peace plan by Woodrow
  Wilson called the Fourteen Point Plan.
• Germans agree to an Armistice because they expect
  to get the Fourteen Point Plan.
• Armistice is a cease fire.

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Woodrow Wilson

• Wilson didnt believe in revenge.
• He believed in the power of kindness.
• Wilson proposes the Fourteen Point Plan.

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Fourteen Point Plan

1. An end to secret agreements
2. Freedom of the seas
3. Free trade
4. Limit on arms
5. Peaceful settlement of dispute over colonies
6. Self-Determination (ends the old imperialist
   system that let winning nations get foreign
   colonies)
7. League of Nations

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League of Nations

• Wilson expected to guarantee freedom to all the
  worlds people and keep peace between nations
  with his League of Nations.
• Wilson traveled to Europe because he wanted other
  countries to view America as the peacemaker.
• Many Americans worried about America getting
  involved in Europes problems.

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Without a League of Nations to enforce peace,
there might be another war -- and it will be much
worse than the Great War.
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Have all of the causes of war been addressed?

• Is their any winner or loser in this treaty?
• Is it fair to the Germans, British, and French?

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France and Great Britain

• Allies like France and Great Britain dislike
  Wilsons Fourteen Point Plan.

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Germany

• Expects the Fourteen Point Plan to be the terms
  when they sign an armistice on November 11, 1918.

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Big Four Meet at Versailles

• Italy - Vittorio Orlando
• Great Britain - Lloyd George
• France - Georges Clemenceau
• USA - Woodrow Wilson
• Discuss terms of surrender and agree to a treaty

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What do they want in the treaty?

• Revenge
• Great Britain
• France
• Italy
• Fourteen Point Plan
• USA
• Germany

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What do the Germans get?
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Treaty of Versailles

• Allies strip Germany of all colonies.
• Alsace-Lorraine returned to France.
• Poland is created (part of it through old
  Germany.)
• Saar territory is put under French control for 15
  years.
• 5. German land given to Czechoslovakia.

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• Rhineland is occupied for 15 years.
• 7. Germans pay 65 billion reparations
• 8. Army limited to 100,000 men.
• 9. Germany is officially blamed for starting the
  war.
• 10. Navy cut to 6 battleships, 6 cruisers, 12
  destroyers, and 12 torpedo boats.
• 11. League of Nations is formed.

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World War I On the Home Front