A FLAWED PEACE

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A FLAWED PEACE
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THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE

• January 18, 1919
• THE BIG FOUR
• Woodrow Wilson U. S.
• David Lloyd George G.B.
• Georges Clemenceau France
• Vittorio Orlando - Italy

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The Big FourLloyd, Orlando, Clemenceau, Wilson
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THE PROBLEM!!!

• Britain France want revenge strip Germany
  of war making power and pay (reparations) for the
  damages and suffering

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UNREPRESENTED

• GERMANY
• AUSTRIA HUNGARY
• BULGARIA
• TURKEY (OTTOMANS)
• RUSSIAN (CIVIL WAR)

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WILSONS 14 POINT PEACE PLAN

• 1. No secret treaties or agreements between
  countries
• 2. Absolute freedom of the seas
• 3. Free trade
• 4. Reduce national armies and navies
• 5. Adjust colonial claims with fairness to
  colonial peoples
• 6-13. Self-determination allow people to decide
  under what government they wish to live
• 14. Creation of a League of Nations a general
  association of nations that would protect great
  and small states alike.

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PUNISHMENT OF GERMANY

• 1. Loss of territories Alsace/Lorraine back to
  France French border extended to the Rhine
  River
• 2. All overseas colonies in Africa Asia
  mandated to League of Nations
• 3. Military Restrictions limit army, no war
  weapons or manufacture of same, no air force, no
  submarines
• 4. WAR GUILT Germany must accept full
  responsibility for war Pay Allies 33 Billion
  in reparations over 30 years.

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NEW NATIONS

• From Austria-Hungary Austria, Hungary,
  Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
• From Russia Romania Poland gain territory
• New Nations Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

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Before After
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CONSEQUENCES!

• U.S. Recognized as most powerful nation in world
  wants to stay out of European Affairs
  (isolationism)
• U.S. REJECTS treaty- signs separate peace with
  Germany
• WAR GUILT leaves legacy of bitterness hate in
  German peoples
• Europe continues colonialism under mandate system
• Japan Italy are bitter over not receiving more
  spoils of war
• League of Nations is too weak to solve complaints