1.  Meeting of Allied Powers (No Central Powers) to determine post-war arrangements. ◦ Georges Clemenceau, France ◦ Lloyd George, Great Britain ◦ Woodrow Wilson, United States  British blockade created urgency to make arrangements  Threatened to restart war if treaties were not followed

2. Georges Clemenceau Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George

3.  June 28, 1919  Purpose: decrease military potential of Central powers  Took away lands like Alsace-Lorrain (France) West Prussia( Poland)  Conditions for Germany: ◦ Accept responsibility and guilt for starting the war ◦ Not allowed to have navy or air force and an army of only 100,000 ◦ No union with Austria ◦ Pay for cost of war and pay reparations to Allies in either money or goods such as land ◦ Give back land taken in Brest-Litovisk Treaty to Russia

4. Meeting of Allied Powers during the creation of the Treaty of Versailles

5.  Created (Wilson’s 14 Points) to prevent the world from returning to total conflict  Based in Switzerland because of their neutrality in the war  America refused to join the League because of their isolationism ideals  Germany and Russia were not allowed to join  Failed to stop conflicts in Turkey, Italy, Russia, Lithuania and Germany  Created mandate system- “Prepare natives for self-government” Rewarded spoils to Allies

7.  Treaty of Neuilly (1919)- Bulgaria ceeded portions of territory  Treaty of St. Germain (1919) and Treaty of Trianon ( 1920)- Allies recognize the break- up of Austrian-Hungarian Empire  Treaty of Sevres (1920)- end of Ottoman Empire and led to foreign control of that region  Treaty of Lausanne (1923)- Allied powers recognized Republic of Turkey as separate entity from Ottoman Empire

8. Before and After the Treaties at the end of WWI

9.  Deaths ◦ War conflicts killed at least 15 million people and wounded 20 million ◦ Millions more died in following years from starvation, malnutrition, diseases  End of Western completely superiority  Great Depression  New ideas in religion, architecture, art, physics, physiology  Huge lasting tension (Germany)

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