The Treaty of Versaillies: Aims
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- Created on: 30-01-17 17:00
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- Terms of the Treaty of Versallies
- Aims of the Big Three
- Woodrow Wilson
- To reduce armaments, self-determination, create League of Nations.
- Georges Clemenceau
- To annex Rhineland and create a buffer zone, impose major disarmament on Germany, heavy reparations.
- David Lloyd George
- British military security, to limit French demands because of hope to trade with Germany in near future.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Territorial Arrangments
- Eupen-Malmedy subjected to Plebiscite to Belgium
- Alsae-Lorraine handed back to France
- North Schleswig subjected to Plebiscite to Denmark
- West Prussia and Posen to Poland thus creating Polish Corridor
- Upper Silesia subjected to plebiscite.
- Ban of Anschluss with Austria
- Danzig and Memel made 'free cities', under control of LOG for 15 years.
- Kiel canal and rivers run by international commissions.
- Rhineland to be demiltarised
- Germany colonies shared out as mandates
- Economical
- Reparations at £6600 million. It was fixed later by Inter-Allied Reparations. Saar region was subjected to timber and coal exports to France.
- Army
- Abolish conscription and reduce army down to 100,000. Rhineland as already mentioned, no military aircraft, limited to six battleships, six cruisers, twelve destroyers, and no submarines allowed.
- Feelings
- Diktat, forced to sign article 231. Not just to blame. Did not follow Wilson's fourteen points.
- Universal disarmament would not occur.
- Germany was forced to sign by allied naval blockade.
- Unreasonable on reparations
- Aims of the Big Three
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