The Big Three
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- The Big Three
- Georges Clemenceau
- About
- Wanted an extremely harsh treaty and germany to be punished
- Wanted to dismantle German military completely
- Wanted to take land and create a large fine so that Germany would be too weak to attack again
- Wanted revenge for financial loss, human loss and damage to land and buildings
- Wanted revenge for 1870 and WW1
- Wanted France safe from any attack
- Wanted to prevent communism from spreading to France
- Why he disagreed with the others
- wanted to keep French empire which went against Wilson's ideas
- Was against Wilson with the financial penalty which he was eventually forced to lower
- He failed to make the Rhineland independant (nearest part to France)
- About
- David Lloyd George
- Main aims
- Recently re-elected on the basis of promises to treat Germany harshly
- Wanted to dismantle German navy so that the British is the best
- Take German colonies
- Protect and strengthen British empire
- Wants Germany to still be able to trade
- Use Germany as a buffer to stop Russia and its communism
- Why he disagreed with the others
- Stuck in the middle
- Wanted a lenient treaty but had promised Britain a harsh one
- Wanted to keep British empire - disagreed with self-determination
- Disagreed with completely splitting up Germany which Clemenceau wanted
- Stuck in the middle
- Main aims
- Woodrow Wilson
- About
- Became president of the USA in 1912
- Wanted a more lenient treaty
- Feared germany would want to seek revenge
- Wanted self-determinationfor all countries (meant breaking up the empires and countries ruling themselves)
- Wanted to break up empires because it would make USA dominant
- Why he disagreed with the others
- He wanted a lenient, calm treaty which went completely against Clemenceau's ideas
- Self-dtermination meant the end of British and French empire, so they refused
- He wanted freedom of the seas which Britian did not agree with because they wanted their navy to be dominant of the seas
- About
- Georges Clemenceau
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