1. What were the flaws of the Treaty of Versailles?
Fourteen Points
Self determination
League of Nations
US Senate
“peace built on quicksand”
Treaty of Versailles
Territorial Losses
Military restrictions
War Guilt Clause
Germany takes blame for war
Reparations
Nazi party
Conclusion: How should the winner of the war treat the defeated?

2. Self determination 14 points was Wilson’s post war plan
Allowing people to decide for themselves how they wished to live

3. League of Nations
International association designed to keep peace among the nations

4. US Senate
US Senate votes not to join the League

5. Treaty of Versailles US does not join the League
Self determination granted to European countries
Self determination denied to European colonies in Africa and Asia

6. Territorial Losses
Germany surrenders overseas colonies in China to Japan
Ottoman Empire loses the lands of the Middle East to France and Britain

7. Military Restrictions
Limits the size of German army
Germany prohibited from importing war material
Germany forbidden from having air force or submarines

8. War Guilt Clause Germany required to take blame for the war
Government officials forced to sign it
Kaiser had abdicated
Never saw the clause until day of signature
"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."

9. Reparations Germany forced to pay for the war
Georges Clemenceau of France and David Lloyd George of England pushed for it

10. Nazi Party Nationalist party formed in 1919 Anti Treaty of Versailles
Many Germany veterans joined
Felt stabbed in the back