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Chapter 23. Searching for Peace Section 5 . The Big Four. Prime Minister David Lloyd George (Great Britain) Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando (Italy) Premier Georges Chemenceau (France) President Woodrow Wilson (U.S.). Palace of Versailles. President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
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Chapter 23 Searching for Peace Section5
The Big Four Prime Minister David Lloyd George (Great Britain) Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando (Italy) Premier Georges Chemenceau (France) President Woodrow Wilson (U.S.)
President Woodrow Wilson’sFourteen Points • Adjustment of boundaries in Europe • Creation of new nations • The right of people to decide how they are to • be governed • Freedom of the Seas • Free Trade • End to secret treaties or agreements • Reductions and limits on arms • Creation of the League of Nations
President Wilson He did not want revenge with the defeated nations, but the others did.
Terms of the Treaty Germany would. . . . . • accept full responsibility • pay reparations (32 billion) • disarm completely • give up overseas colonies • (League of Nations formed)
Treaty of Versailles was not accepted by the United States…..WHY? Henry Cabot Lodge (head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) “American troops and American ships may be ordered to any part of the world by nations other than the U.S., and that is a proposition to which I, for one, can never assent.”