1. What were problems with the Treaty of Versailles?
A Flawed Peace
What were problems with the Treaty of Versailles?

2. Paris Peace Conference
The PPC begins in January of 1919
The big four goals:
1) Woodrow Wilson - USA
2) Lloyd George – Great Britain
Wants lasting peace!
Punish Germany!
1)Fourteen Points
1)German reparations
a)Self determination
2)Weaken German Army
b)League of Nations
3) Central Powers should lose territory
4) Vittorio Orlando - Italy
3) Georges Clemenceau - France
Get Anything!
1)Want land from
Austria-Hungary
Get Revenge!
1)Blame Germany for war
2)Take back territory
3) German reparations

5. Pres. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
First Five Points
End of secret treaties
Freedom of seas and trade
Reduced armies and navies
Address colonial claims
6-13
Change borders and set up new nations
Self determination [people choose type of gov’t for own country]
14th Point
Organization to peacefully negotiate international conflicts

6. Some countries not invited to Paris:
German Republic
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Why? need to blame Germans
Why? Country to be broken up
Why? Will also be broken up – British want Mid East
Lenin & Russia
Colonies seeking Independence
Why? Traitor & don’t like communists!
Nationalist leaders not invited or asked to leave

7. The Treaty of Versailles
France and GB want to punish Germany
- blamed for deaths and destruction
- national security issues w/ Germany in future ???
War Guilt
Germany must sign a war guilt clause  sole responsibility for war
Reparations ($)
Germany pays $33 billion over 30 years
Military Restrictions
Germany must reduce army, no new weapons or U-boats
14th Point
League of Nations is formed
US does not sign T of V  concerned w/ being committed to Euro issues

8. Treaty of Versailles – Self Determination
Germany
Loses land to France
Loses land to Poland & Czechoslovakia
Loses ALL African & Asian colonies
Austria-Hungary
Land goes to: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia (mts to Italy)
Ottoman Empire
1)Can keep Turkey
2) Middle East split between Britain & France
Russia (due to Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)
Loss land to Poland. Finland & three Baltic States gain independence