Good morning! First Four – In your spiral notebook Label your work “Versailles Goals” and date your paper – 8/11/16 Briefly explain the major goal of your country’s leader at the Versailles Peace Conference? Please get out your work from last class about the aims of the Big Three at Versailles. Find your Major Themes Sheet. Two Truths & a Lie

Group planning Guiding Question: What were the aims of the Big 3 at the Versailles Peace Conference? France Great Britain United States Russia??? – a special case… Documents? – Be prepared to show the class.

Additional Items to Consider What should happen to the German army? How much should Germany be asked to pay for the damage done during the war? How much land should Germany lose?   Should the Treaty blame Germany for the war?   What is the best way to stop a war ever happening again? 

Presentations Guiding Question: What were the aims of the Big Three at the Versailles Peace Conference? How well do you address your assigned questions? Be specific. What specific academic vocabulary do you use – Specific Historical Evidence (SHE)? Is your presentation understandable & useful for the rest of the class?

Documents Guiding Question: What were the aims of the Big Three at the Versailles Peace Conference? What do the documents say? Whose viewpoint to they express? How can they help us address the guiding question?

Source A The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conqust, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation…We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. Woodrow Wilson, April 1917 to the US Congress

We propose to demand the whole cost of the war from Germany. Source C We want a peace which will be just, but not vindictive...   Above all, we want to protect the future against a repetition of the horrors of this war.  Lloyd George speaking to Parliament (1919) before he went off to the Conference. Source B We propose to demand the whole cost of the war from Germany.  From a speech by Lloyd George, made in December 1918, during an election campaign.

Source D America is far away, protected by the ocean.  Not even Napoleon himself could touch England.  You are both sheltered; we are not. Georges Clemenceau, debating with Wilson and Lloyd George on 27 March 1919.  Wilson had pressed Clemenceau for ‘moderation’.

Source E The conduct of Germany is almost unexampled in human history…not less than 7 million dead lie buried in Europe…because Germany saw fit to gratify her lust for tyranny by resorting to war…Justice, therefore, is the only possible basis for the settlement of the accounts of this terrible war. Georges Clemenceau, June 1919 at the Peace Conference

And finally… Why did Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George have such different attitudes at the Conference? Why did the 'Big Three' disagree so violently at the Versailles Conference?

Compare the aims of the Big 3 at the Versailles Peace Conference.

Skeleton Essay Your first shot at an essay in this class. I’m looking for: About one full page Your thesis (argument) How do you support it? What factual evidence do you have? This is a rough draft. I don’t expect perfection…yet.

Final Four Pick two terms from your Major Themes sheet and write a statement of significance for each. This is one or two sentences that define the term and explain how it is important to anything we have discussed. In other words what is it, and how is it significant? Example: Woodrow Wilson was the US president at Versailles who authored the 14 Points. He was more interested in self-determination and preserving peace than in punishing Germany.