Transcript The Treaty of Versailles - Whitefish School District

From January to June 1918,
U.S. President Woodrow
Wilson and The
representatives of the
European powers met at the
Palace of Versailles, outside
Paris, to decide the terms of
Peace.
Representatives from over
30 countries attended.
However, the “Big Four”
negotiated the most
important provisions of the
Treaty of Versailles
Major objectives:
•Ensuring
World Peace
•Protecting the interests of
the countries represented
These often were in conflict
From left, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando,
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and US President Woodrow Wilson
•What
made negotiation the treaty difficult?
•What
were Wilson’s objectives at
Versailles?
•How
did Wilson’s objectives differ from
those of the European powers?
•Why
did the two sides have such different
objectives?
•Which
side’s goals had a better chance of
achieving world peace and European
security? Why?
•Germany
must admit blame for
•Germany
must pay total cost of war
WWI
•Germany’s
army limit in size
•Germany’s
naval fleet turned over to
Allies
•Germany’s
colonial possessions
divided by Allies
•Austria-Hungary,
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divided into four independent nations:
Austria
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
•Five
other independent countries established along
Germany’s border with the Soviet Union:
• Poland
• Finland
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania
•League
of nations and World Court Established
•Secret
Treaties
•Freedom
•Free
of the seas/Rights of neutral powers at sea
Trade, except required of Germany
•Only
Germany required to reduce army/armaments
•Many
in Congress questioned the League of Nations
(Wilson considered this the most important part)
•Wilson
refused to compromise on Article 10 (might
have led to foreign wars without approval of Congress)
•Wilson
toured the country trying to get public approval
•Election
of 1920 “referendum on League of Nations”
Warren G. Harding (Rep.) defeated Wilson
•U.S
. Signed separate peace agreement with Germany