Powers attitudes to Treaty of Versailles
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- Created on: 01-06-16 11:35
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- Powers attitudes to TOV
- President Wilson - USA
- Priority - creation of League of Nations. Peace could be maintained through compromise.
- The way to build a peaceful Europe was through national self-determination.
- Priority - creation of League of Nations. Peace could be maintained through compromise.
- President Clemenceau - France
- Overriding principle - security. To end German threat for good by imposing a damaging 'Carthaginian Peace'.
- Supported by French and British opinion
- Confiscation of territory and restrictions on German military strength.
- Also encouraged the strengthening of Poland at the expense of Germany.
- Confiscation of territory and restrictions on German military strength.
- C-peace: particularly harsh - designed to maintain the inferiority of the loser + humiliate them
- Supported by French and British opinion
- Overriding principle - security. To end German threat for good by imposing a damaging 'Carthaginian Peace'.
- David Lloyd George - UK
- Didn't want to see an over-strengthened France
- Agreed with France however that Germany needed to be punished.
- Came under political pressure from home to support the French idea of damaging reparations.
- Rhineland was to be demilitarized.
- Agreed with France however that Germany needed to be punished.
- Didn't want to see an over-strengthened France
- Article 231
- making Germany solely responsible for the outbreak of war
- President Wilson - USA
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