The Treaty of Versailles
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- The Treaty of Versailles
- The Big Three
- David Lloyd George
- British Prime Minister
- Wanted to 'make Germany pay'
- Wanted to be harsh because the British public hated the Germans
- Wanted things that would benefit Britain
- Reduce the size of the German Navy
- Get rid of the German Empire
- To continue to to trade with Germany
- George Clemenceau
- French Prime Minister
- Wanted to severely punish Germany
- 2/3 of French soldier in WW1 had beem killed or injured
- He had seen Germany invade France twice in 1870 and 1914
- Wanted £10 billion in reparations
- Woodrow Wilson
- American President
- Wanted to be fair so Germany wouldn't seek revenge
- Had 14 points
- Self-determination
- To set up a League of Nations
- Disarmament
- David Lloyd George
- Terms of the Treaty
- War Guilt
- Article 231
- Germany had to accept the blame for starting WW1
- Military
- Army reduced to 100,000 men
- Conscription Banned
- No armed vehicles,submarines or aircraft
- Navy limited to 6 battleships
- Rhineland demilitarised
- Reparations
- £6.6 billion
- Wouldn't have finished paying until 1984
- Territory
- All colonies placed under LoN's control
- Lost 10% of land
- Lost 12.5% of population
- Lost 16% of coal fields
- Alsace-Lorraine went to France
- North Schleswig went to Denmark
- West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia went to Poland
- Saarland placed under LoN's control for 15 years
- Lost almost 50% of iron & steel industry
- League of Nations set up
- War Guilt
- Reactions to the Treaty
- British
- Lloyd George was hailed as a hero
- In private Lloyd George worried it was too harsh
- French
- The French public felt it wasn't harsh enough
- Clemenceau was voted out of office in 1920 for allowing it to be too soft
- American
- Wilson was disappointed that it was too harsh and that he'd been ignored
- Congress later refused to join the LoN, Wilson's one success
- German
- Called it a 'diktat'
- Very angry as they were expecting a fair treaty
- Especially angry about the war guilt and territory terms
- British
- The Big Three
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