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What were the
aims of the Big
Three at the Paris
Peace conference?
What were the aims of the Big Three at the Paris
Peace Conference?
Lesson Aim:
To have assessed what each of the big three want from the
conference.
TASK: Stick in any loose sheets!
Also, look at your check list.
Palace of Versailles, politicians of victorious WWI countries
come together to discuss the war settlement. This ended in
the Treaty of Versailles, 1919.
 We will look at what the Big Three (Britain, France, USA) wanted.
 How fair the Treaty of Versailles was – Read ‘Mood in 1919’
Who were the big three?
 Who were the Big Three?
 Why were they called the Big Three?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/bigthree
_video.shtml
What did the Big Three want?
 Use p4-5 to find out what the Big Three wanted from the Paris Peace
Conference.
 Stick the picture of each of the Big Three into your book and create
a spider diagram of their wants around them (and why).
 Make sure you note down 1, 2, 3, 14 of Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
Self-determination –
Everyone has the right to
rule themselves.
Colonialism is therefore
unacceptable.
Extra Challenge: Have
a look at the orange
profiles.
Wilson
Mini whiteboards……
Write down one thing that....
Clemenceau wants
Woodrow Wilson wants
Lloyd George wants
Paris Peace Conference, June 1919
For your country…….
Come up with some ideas for your ‘perfect’ Treaty of Versailles.
 Reparations.
 Land.
 Armed Forces
The main points of the Treaty [BRAT] (land losses p26)
The first 26 Articles of the Treaty set out the Covenant of the League of Nations; the
rest of the 440 Articles detailed Germany's punishment:
1. Germany had to accept the Blame for starting the war (Clause 231).
2. Germany had to pay £6,600 million (called Reparations) for the damage done
during the war.
3. Germany was forbidden to have submarines or an air force.
She could have a navy of only six battleships, and an Army of just 100,000 men.
In addition, Germany was not allowed to place any troops in the Rhineland, the
strip of land, 50 miles wide, next to France.
4. Germany lost Territory Germany’s colonies were given to Britain and France.
(Also, Germany was forbidden to join the League of Nations, or unite with Austria.)
RESOURCES
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson