1. Treaty of Versailles and the End of WWI

2. Wilson’s 14 Points No secret treaties among countries
Freedom of the seas
Low tariffs to support economic development
Reduce arms and weapons
Self-determination- right of people to determine what is best for them
Ethnic groups in Europe
League of Nations- promote and maintain peace

3. What Britain and France Wanted
Blame Germany for war
Make Germany pay for damages- reparations
France take over Alsace-Lorraine region

4. Provisions of Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Clause- Germany blamed for the war and must accept full responsibility
Germany must pay reparations to France, Britain and US for damages caused during war ($33 Billion)
League of Nations created- hope to maintain peace and prevent another war
Germany not allowed to build an army
France gain the Alsace-Lorraine region- big industrial area on border with Germany
Germany stripped of colonial possessions

5. Other Provisions New Nations Created
Austria and Hungary two separate nations
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Finland
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Turkey- former part of Ottoman Empire

6. Europe after WWI

7. US Reaction to Treaty of Versailles
United States
Treaty will not be ratified in US Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge- lead vote in Senate to reject Treaty
US will not join League of Nations
US will be isolationist after WWI- will not no part of events in Europe

9. Europe’s Economy Germany Embarrassed by treatment
Unable to pay reparations
Lead them to a Economic Depression