George Clemencau - President of france: Wanted Germany to pay for the Damage, (wanted revenge) Wanted independant Rhineland, Wanted Germany weak and crippled.
Woodrow Wilson - President of America: He wanted the 14 points/better world safe for democracy,
Fair peace/ self-determination,
International Co-operation (Laeage of Nations)
David Lloyd George - Prime Minister of Britain: Punish & make Germany pay , but didn't want revenge like france,
Protect the Brtish Empire,
Did not want to create anger in Germany which would lead to war in the future
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Five Terms
Guilt - clause 231, Germany accepted the blame for causing all the loss and damage of the war.
Army - 100,00, no submerines, no aeroplanes, 6 battleships, Rhineland de-militerised
Reparations - £6.6 million - in instalments until 1984
League of Nations - Set up
Extra points -forbade Anschluss/Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania independent states.
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Germans felt:
Unfairly treated
Guilt,- meaning 'such a confession in my mouth would be a lie' (Hitler is taking advantage)
Armed Forces - Germany could not defend itself in the League of Nations
Reparations - Starved German children
Germany lost territory - it made Germany poorer
League of Nations - Germany couldn't defend itself in the League of Nations
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Successes and failures
Successes Nine nations set up - Poland, Finland, Austria, Hungary, Czechslovakia, Yugoslavia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Alsace Lorraine given to France Minorities: countries had treat minorities fairly Elections (plebiscites) in 3 places - Schleswig, Upper Silesia and the Saar
Failures Germans in Sudentenland to Czechoslovakia Anschluss forbidden Minorities existed Empires stayed Specific violations
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