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THE WAR ENDS. Differing Allied Goals. America, Woodrow Wilson - within Fourteen Points -reduction of weapons -right of all people to choose their own governments (democracies) -organization for world ’ s nations to join, to protect from future aggression. Differing Allied Goals.
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DifferingAllied Goals • America, Woodrow Wilson - within Fourteen Points -reduction of weapons -right of all people to choose their own governments (democracies) -organization for world’s nations to join, to protect from future aggression
Differing Allied Goals • France, Georges Clemenceau • punish Germany • make Germany pay for costs of war • Great Britain, David Lloyd George • punish Germany • don’t weaken Germany • wanted Germany to stop communism from spreading out of Russia
Treaty of Versailles • Germany was forced to: - pay reparations: compensation in money, payable by a defeated country to another for loss suffered during war -take responsibility for conflict -return conquered land to France & Russia -give land for formation of new country of Poland -give colonies around world to various world powers -limit size of military
Treaty of Versailles • June 28, 1919 signed by Germany • Wilson did get one thing he asked for: • League of Nations: international body of nations formed after World War I to prevent future wars -Germany was excluded from the League -United States did not join League
The Costs of War • Economic Costs -France, Belgium, & Russia -farmland & cities were destroyed -countries started importing from different sources or develop own products -American & Japanese economies prospered -$332 billion = total “cost of war”
Other Treaties • treaties between Allied & Central Powers • Austria-Hungary & Ottoman Empire were broken apart to form other countries • mandates: territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War I
The Costs of War • fifteen new nations formed before 1921 Finland Czechoslovakia Estonia Austria Latvia Hungary Lithuania Yugoslavia East Prussia Syria Poland Iraq Lebanon Palestine Transjordan