The Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty of Versailles

• The Whos and Whats

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The Big Four at the Paris Peace Talks (1919)

• Woodrow Wilson - President, United States
• Georges Clemenseau - Premier of France
• David Lloyd George - Prime Minister of Britain
• Vittorio Orlando Foreign Minister of Italy

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Woodrow Wilson

• Idealist - thought WWI would be war to end all
  wars
• Fourteen Points (plan for lasting peace)
• self-determination
• peace without victory
• disarmament
• fair treatment of colonial peoples
• League of Nations

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Georges Clemenseau

• France had been destroyed in WWI
• wanted protection from further Germany attacks
• get rid of German military
• make Germany pay for war

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David Lloyd George

• Most afraid of German u-boats
• wanted to get rid of German navy
• wanted German colonies
• wanted to get paid for losses

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Vittorio Orlando

• Italy entered war because of promise of cities in
  Austria.
• Was given Tryrol and Trieste
• demanded more but when others refused he walked
  out.
• The Big Four became the Big Three

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Treaty of Versailles

• 1919 Weimar Republic, German democratic
  government, was forced to sign it.

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War Reparations

• 5 billion within 2 years
• 28 billion (after the damages were tallied)

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German military

• 100,000 soldiers
• 6 warships
• no planes
• no submarines

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War Guilt Clause

• Germany was the blame for starting the war.
• The most hated part of the treaty.

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Mandate system

• Mandates - colonies of former Central Powers to
  be given to Allied nations
• To be given their independence sometime in
  future.
• From Ottoman Empire
• Syria (France)
• Egypt and Palestine (Britain)

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Borders changed

• New countries
• Czechoslovakia
• Poland (Polish corridor split Germany in two)
• Yugoslavia
• Latvia
• Estonia
• Finland

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