The Big 3

David Lloyd George - Prime Minister of Britain

• he was a realist, experience meant he knew there would need to be copromise.

Aims at the Paris Peace Conference

• wanted Germany punished but not harshly.
• wanted them to lose navy and colonies....
• like Wilson, didn't want them to seek revenge and start another war.
• keen for Germany and Britain to trade again.
• had problems with public pressures, only won 1918 elections cause he said he'd make Germany pay.

Prime Minister of France

• experience politian, very tough and unwelcoming to compromise.
• wanted Germany treated harshly due to them invading his country, looked for repayment of reperations.

Aims at The Paris Peace Conference

• suffered damage to land, industry, people and selfconfidence.
• 2/3 of soldiers killed or injured.
• they had felt threatened by Germany's increasing power since 1870. German land and industry wasn't very damaged.
• French population was in decline to Germany's (France-40 million & Germany-75 million)
• he saw an opportunity to cripple Germany so they wouldnt attack again.
• wanted Germany broken into smaller states.
• Britain and France didn't agreee.

President of U.S.A

• an idealist.
• campaigned again corruption in politics abd business.

Aims at The Paris Peace Conference

• wanted to build a better & more peaceful world.
• thought Germany should be punished but not too harsly, because they would recover and want revenge.
• main aim was to streghten democracy in the defeated nation.
• In January 1918 he published his Fourteen Points to achieve co-operation.
• he wanted the LON to be set up
• believed in self-determination
• he was technically 'all talk', he wanted all this but he didn't know a lot about the countries in Europe and his ideas were very impractical.

1. No secret treaties: they had caused WW1

2. Free access to the seas in peacetime or wartime: stop countries fighting to gain a coast

3. Free trade between countries: create more jobs - more money

4. All countries to work torwards disarmament: avoid unecessary wars starting

5. Colonies to have a say in their own future: countries will have own people ruling them

6. German troops to leave Russia: Russia to have freedom

7. Independance for Belgium: so its left as it was

8. France to regain Alsace-Lorraine: make the French happy

9. Frontier between Austria abd Italy to be adjusted: helps Italy cause they are allies

10. Self determination for all peoples of eastern Europe: Europeans to have their own say

11. Serbia to have access to the Sea: Serbia able to trade

12. Self-determination for the people in the Turkisk Empire: they would have their own say

13. Poland to become an independent state with access to the sea: more freedom

14. League of Nations to be set up: help create world peace