1. The Treaty of Versailles
The Who’s and What’s

2. The Big Four at the Paris Peace Talks (1919)
Woodrow Wilson - President, United States
Georges Clemenseau - Premier of France
David Lloyd George - Prime Minister of Britain
Vittorio Orlando – Foreign Minister of Italy

3. Woodrow Wilson Idealist - thought WWI would be “war to end all wars”
Fourteen Points (plan for lasting peace)
self-determination
peace without victory
disarmament
fair treatment of colonial peoples
League of Nations

4. Georges Clemenseau France had been destroyed in WWI
wanted protection from further Germany attacks
get rid of German military
make Germany pay for war

5. David Lloyd George Most afraid of German u-boats
wanted to get rid of German navy
wanted German colonies
wanted to get paid for losses

6. Vittorio Orlando
Italy entered war because of promise of cities in Austria.
Was given Tryrol and Trieste
demanded more but when others refused he walked out.
The Big Four became the Big Three

7. Treaty of Versailles
1919 Weimar Republic, German democratic government, was forced to sign it.

8. War Reparations $5 billion within 2 years
$28 billion (after the damages were tallied)

9. German military
100,000 soldiers
6 warships
no planes
no submarines

10. War Guilt Clause Germany was the blame for starting the war.
The most hated part of the treaty.

11. Mandate system
Mandates - colonies of former Central Powers to be given to Allied nations
To be given their independence sometime in future.
From Ottoman Empire:
Syria (France)
Egypt and Palestine (Britain)

12. Borders changed New countries Czechoslovakia
Poland (Polish corridor split Germany in two)
Yugoslavia
Latvia
Estonia
Finland