1. One Year of Debating Germany’s Future
A FLAWED PEACE
One Year of Debating Germany’s Future

2. Wilson’s “ Fourteen Points” for Peace (1-5)
End of secret treaties
Freedom of the seas
Free trade
Reduced national armies & navies
Fairness toward colonized people

3. Wilson’s Points (6-13) Changing borders Creating new nations
Structured around self-determination
Allowing people to decide government for themselves

4. U. S. did not join / Germany & Russia not allowed
League of Nations (14)
A general association of nations
Help for great and small nations
Negotiate peaceful solution to conflict
Avoid world war
U. S. did not join / Germany & Russia not allowed

5. Council of Four Woodrow Wilson – U. S. (leniency)
Georges Clemenceau – France (punishment)
David George – Great Britain
Italy – Vittorio Orlando
Russia – involved in civil war (not there)
Germany and their allies were not invited

6. The Treaty of Versailles
Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
Germany surrenders African & Pacific colonies
Limits size of army / forbids import of weapons, submarines & air force

7. The Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt:
Germany takes sole responsibility for the war
Forced to pay $30 billion over 30 years

8. Creation of New Nations
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire lost huge amounts of land in separate treaties
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia became independent
Brits got Palestine, Iraq & Transjordan
France got Syria and Lebanon