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Treaty of Versailles
- The Big 3
- David Lloyed George
- In the 1918 election Lloyed George
was elected as prime minister, he
promised Britain that he would
make Germany pay for the war.
- For this reason he would have wanted
Germany to get some of the blame for the war
because it is what he had promised he would
do if he came into power. However he didn t
wat them to be treated too harshly because he
didn't want them to seek revenge, and even
maybe start another war
- Before the war Germany was Britains
second largest trading partener. He
wanted Germany and Britain to trade
with each other again like they had done
before
- Britainn wanted Germany to still be strong so this
is one one of the reasons they didnt want them to
be punished too harshly
- Britain owed the USA nearly £1 billion
- Reparations were needed to pay this money back
- Woodrow Wilson
- He believed Germany should be punished
however not too harshly incase one day they
recovered and decided to seek revenge
- He feared that communists
might seize power in
Germany and that there
might be communist
revalution in 1917 in Russia.
- He believed that Germany and
Austia started the war because
they were autocraties.
Autocraties could start wars
and there people would have
no say in it.
- He wanted to strengthen democracy in
Europe so the people wouldn't allow there
leaders to start another war
- He wanted international co-operation
because this is what he though would
achieve peace
- George Clemincean
- Germany had invaded France 5 times since 1814,
this is because Germany is at the border of
France. For this reason France felt vulnerable to
another attack.
- For this reason Frace wanted Germany
to be completely crippled so they
wouldn't be invaded again. They wanted
Germany's army to be abolished
- During the war,
most of the fighting
went on in France.
750,000 homes were
destroyed leaving 2
million people
homeless
- France wanted reparations to pay for the
damage done. they also wanted the
reparations to cripple Germany out of revenge
and to stop them invading again.