2. Post WW I

3. Wilson’s Plan for Peace  14 Points  Speech to Congress Jan 1918  Just and lasting peace

4. Points 1-4  No secret treaties  Freedom of the seas  Free trade  Reduction of armed forces

5. Fifth Point  Adjustment of colonies  Fairness toward colonial people

6. Points 6 - 13  Change borders  Create new nations  Self-determination  people decided under which government they wish to live

7. 14 th Point  Organization to peacefully negotiate solutions to world conflicts

8. Treaty of Versailles  Big Four  Wilson – USA  Clemenceau – France  Lloyd George – Great Britain  Orlando – Italy  No Russia  No Central Power Reps.

9. Versailles cont.  Disagreements amongst Big 4  Wilson – peace  Clemenceau - punishment

10. Versailles cont.  Major Provisions 1.League of Nations 2.Territorial losses 3.Military restrictions 4.War Guilt

11. League of Nations  International peace organization  Germany and Russia excluded

12. Territorial Losses  Germany returns Alsace-Lorraine to France  Germany surrenders all overseas colonies

13. Military Restrictions  Limits size of German army (1000 men)  Germany prohibited from importing or manufacturing weapons  Germany forbidden to build submarines or have an air force

14. War Guilt  Germany accepts full blame for war  Reparations  Pay allies $33 Billion over 30 years

15. New Nations  Austro-Hungarian Empire  Austria  Hungary  Czechoslovakia  Yugoslavia

16. New Nations cont.  Ottoman Empire  Turkey  Iraq  Russia  Romania  Poland  Finland  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

17. Successful?  USA rejected treaty  Stay out of European affairs  Left Germany bitter and angry  People in mandated areas felt angry at way treated  League of Nation no real power  Allies did not gain land hoped to