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Peace after WWI. Woodrow Wilson – US Georges Clemenceau – France David Lloyd George – G.B. Vittorio Orlando – Italy 32 Total Countries. Big Four. Plan for achieving lasting peace End secret treaties Freedom of seas Free trade Reduced nat’l military Adjust colonial claims
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Woodrow Wilson – US • Georges Clemenceau – France • David Lloyd George – G.B. • Vittorio Orlando – Italy • 32 Total Countries Big Four
Plan for achieving lasting peace • End secret treaties • Freedom of seas • Free trade • Reduced nat’l military • Adjust colonial claims • Changing borders and creating nations • Self-Determination – Decide for selves Wilson’s 14 Points
June 28, 1919 • Created League of Nations • Punished Germany – • lost land – Alsace-Lorraine, west bank of Rhine, Surrenders overseas colonies • military restrictions – size, can’t import or manufacture weapons or material, no subs, no air force • “war guilt” clause – Sole responsibility of war, Pay allies $33 billion over 30 years to allies Treaty of Versailles
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia • Ottomans reduced to Turkey • Palestine, Iraq, Transjordan under British • Syria and Lebanon under France • Romania and Poland gained Russian land • Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania became independent New Nations
US rejected treaty • Americans wanted to stay out of European issues • Germans were bitter • European colonialism continued in Africa and Asia Weak Peace
Why do we fight? Can peace replace war as a driving force in history? • Which country or countries caused WWI? Is the “blame game” appropriate? • Come up with your own peace treaty for WWI – Or at least one clause. Questions