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29.4 A Flawed Peace

By: Rodrigo Arzola, Sebastian Chavarria, Yazet Soto, Carolina Thomas, and Greta Stenner

34 countries attended the meeting, but it was hammered out by the “Big Four”.

-Woodrow Wilsom- President of USA-Georges Clemenceau-President of France-David Lloyd George-Prime Minister of UK-Vittorio Orlando- Italy’s President RUSSIA WAS NOT REPRESENTED (Civil War) GERMANY + ALLIES WERE NOT REPRESENTED

Objective 1: Explain the events that led to the Treaty of Versailles.

DID ATTEND

DID NOT ATTEND

Wilson had drawn up fourteen points for a just and lasting peace.

Some of them were:-no secret treaties-reduced armies a cause of WW1-adjustment of colonial claims-self-determination-”General Association of Nations” then known as the “League of Nations” International association made to keep peace among nations.

Britain and France were concerned about national security.

They wanted to punish Germany.The TREATY OF VERSAILLES between Germany and Allied Powers was signed on June 28, 1919.

The Versailles Treaty

Objective 2: Identify the effects of the Treaty on European Powers.

The treaty punished Germany it lost territory and it had sever restrictions on its military operations. Germany took total responsibility of the war, it had to pay reparations to the Allies.

The Versailles treaty created feelings of bitterness and betrayal among the victors and the defeated.

All of the Central Powers lost land and new countries were created Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.

Russia also lost land!Poland and Romania gained land.

There were other new nations formed: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lituania.

The United States rejected the treaty.

The Versailles Treaty did little to build lasting peace.

The treaty produced anger and despair among nations.

The resentment grew until it led to World War II.

CONCLUSIONS