1. Thursday, January 10th HW: Study for WWI quiz
Aim: How did Wilson’s Fourteen Points influence the Paris Peace Conference?
Do Now: Complete handout.

2. 9,000,000 Dead

5. The shooting had stopped but the terms of peace still had to be worked out

6. On January 18, 1919… Paris Peace Conference convened
at the Palace of Versailles. The
Conference would last over a
year as delegates debated how best
to achieve peace.

7. Who was there? Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau
Vittorio Orlando

8. Who was NOT there?
RUSSIA
GERMANY
& ALLIES

9. BEFORE

10. AFTER

11. BEFORE

12. AFTER

13. What did the Big Four want?
Wilson wanted his Fourteen Points adopted to create a just and lasting peace.
Great Britain wanted to punish
Germany.
France wanted territory and assurance
Germany would not pose a threat
again.
Italy wanted to expand its borders.

15. The Treaty of Versailles
Demobilized Germany (German Army limited to 100,000)
Demilitarized the Rhineland (no German military presence near the Rhine River)
Germany was stripped of its overseas colonies
Germany was stripped of some of its land (Alsace, Lorraine, Saar Basin)
Article 231 “War Guilt Clause” Germany was blamed for the war and thus had to pay reparations
* The Treaty of Versailles caused bitterness in Germany and would ultimately lead to World War II…

16. The Treaty of Versailles also formed the League of Nations, an organization that hoped to settle problems through diplomacy rather than war.
The United States refused to join the League of Nations.
The League of Nations did not have a military.

17. Directions: With your partner, read the particular point and summarize the point in your own words in 1-3 sentences.

18. I. No secret treaties
II. Freedom of the seas
III. Free trade
IV. Reduction in arms
V. Colonies should have self-determination
VI. Evacuation of Russian territory
VII. Belgium restored
VIII. France should get Alsace and Lorraine
IX. Italy’s borders should be adjusted
X. Austria – Hungary dissolved
XI. Balkan states evacuated
XII. Turkey created from former Ottoman Empire
XIII. Poland created
XIV. League of Nations created

19. National Self-Determination: people chose
their own form of government.

20. Summary Use the maps to complete the exit
ticket on the bottom of your Paris
Peace Conference handout.