International Relations

Nov 1918

- Focal point in the Paris Peace Conference

- Contained 440 Clauses

- War Guilt (231) 

- Demilitarization of the Rhineland, occupied by allied troops for 15 years

-Polish Corridor to split Ger ---> under control of the LofN's

-Ger has to give up all overseas colonies

-Reparations, Ger forced to pay, occupation of Ruhr by France 1923

Treaty considered as harsh and unfair on Germany, led to appeasement when Hitler came to power.

Nature of Paris Peace Treaties: Peace without Victory or Peace with Victory

1919: Ger empire had fallen, therefore their overseas countries had to be dealt with

Mandates: a form of trusteeship overseen by LofN -> so colonial possesions belonged to the League

SECRET DEALS: Br + Fr division of the Ottoman empire, Japan got some Islands on N equator

Portuguese claims ignored, Belgian were only given Rwanda and Burundi, people of the territories not consulted.

Nauru: GB took over

The Mandate powers were given a moral duty towards their mandate

The Mandate powers had a duty to do humanitarian work such as endling slave trafficking