The Aims of the Peacemakers
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- The Aims of the Peacemakers
- FRANCE (Clemenceau)
- wanted revenge for all the people lost in WW1
- wanted to push the German border back to the Rhine so French people would feel safer
- wanted Germany to pay reparations to rebuild areas of France badly affected by war
- USA (Wilson)
- wanted a fair peace, so Germany would not seek revenge
- proposed the Fourteen Points
- Americans did not want the USA to be involved in European affairs again
- BRITAIN (Lloyd George)
- wanted naval supremacy by reducing Germany's navy
- aimed to gain German colonies to add to the British Empire
- wanted Germany to stay strong so it could trade with Britain and act as a buffer for Communism
- wanted a cautious approach
- the British public wanted Germany to be punished, however Lloyd George feared that would lead to German retaliation
- The armistice
- Germany had to pay reparations
- give Alsace-Lorraine back to France
- move the German army out of the Rhineland
- The Paris Peace Conference
- January 1919
- 32 countries
- Palace of Versailles
- to discuss the Treaty of Versailles
- FRANCE (Clemenceau)
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