1. A Flawed Peace

2. A Flawed Peace Germany's defeat 13.4
German generals recognized that it was time to sue for peace with the Allies. The Kaiser was forced to abdicate on the 8th November and a new democratic republic was established. An armistice (an agreement to stop fighting) is signed in a railway car near Paris.
On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end.
13.4
How would the Allies deal with a defeated Germany?

4. The Big Four David Lloyd-George [Great Britain] Woodrow Wilson [USA]
Vittorio Orlando [Italy]
Georges Clemenceau [France]

5. “I can predict with absolute certainty
that within another generation there will
be another world war if the nations of
the world do not concert the method
by which to prevent it."
Woodrow Wilson, 1919

6. Differing Allied Goals
America, Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points:
Wanted to prevent future wars.
Reduction of weapons
Self Determination-right of all people to choose their own governments (democracies)
Organization for world’s nations to join, to protect from future aggression

7. Differing Allied Goals
France, Georges Clemenceau
punish Germany
make Germany pay for costs of war
Great Britain, David Lloyd George
don’t weaken Germany
wanted Germany to stop communism from spreading out of Russia
Italy, Vittorio Orlando
wanted to gain territory
-Italy was essentially ignored

8. Treaty of Versailles Allies finally compromised on goals
Treaty of Versailles was closer to Clemenceau’s goals than Wilson’s
Germany had to accept the terms of the treaty

9. Treaty of Versailles (1919)
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Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Designed to cripple Germany
WAR GUILT CLAUSE
GERMANY’S MILITARY FORCES REDUCED
NO UNION
WITH AUSTRIA
THE TERMS
OF THE TREATY OF
VERSAILLES
1919
PAY REPARATIONS
RHINELAND
DE-MILITARISED
LOSS OF TERRITORRY

10. Germany Takes Full Blame
for the War

11. The War Guilt Clause
"The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associate Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of a war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her Allies."
Article 231

12. Treaty of Versailles June 28, 1919  signed by Germany
League of Nations formed:
International body of nations
Purpose: to prevent future wars
Germany was excluded
U.S. did not join

13. Causes of WWI Effects of WWI Militarism Alliance System Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Effects of WWI
Allied victory
Boom in American economy
Colonies lost for defeated empires
Destruction in Europe
Emergence of U.S. as a world
leader & economic giant