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

3. 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

4. The Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt
Germany must sign a war guilt clause
Reparations ($)
Germany pays $33 billion over 30 years
Military Restrictions
Germany must reduce army, no new weapons or U-boats
Fourteen Points
League of Nations is formed (US will decline)

5. 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
Look at the map on page 426 – answer in complete sentences
What country lost the most territory?
What has the creation of Poland done to Germany?
What allied country lost major territory?
How did Serbia achieve a pre-war goal?