Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Players and Treaties
- United States of America
- President = Woodrow Wilson
- United Kingdom
- Prime Minister = Lloyd George
- wanted to eliminate German fleet
- end of german empire
- defeat german plans
to establish control in
eastern europe
- return to normal trade relations
- wanted reparations from germany
- wanted no new alliances
- didn't support
france in
Alsace-Lorraine
- France
- President = George Clemenceau
- france had suffered 2
million casualties and
enormous devastation of
land, industry, & housing
- wanted to disarm germany,
reduce territory, pay reparations
- wanted Alsace- Lorraine
- wanted to make the Rhine
a puppet state of France
- Wanted control of
Luxembourg and
Belgium
- wanted Saar region
in west germany as
compensation
- wanted firm alliance with US and UK
- Italy
- Leader = Vittorio Orlando
- had been promised more land in treaty of london
- wanted dalmation coast, trisste, south tyrol
- walked out of
Treaty of
Versailles when
they got nothing
- Japan
- wanted recognition for its
dominant role in China
- felt entitled to former
German Islands it had
conquered
- sought recognition through a
statement recognizing racial
equality in the peace settlements
- 14 points:
- self determination
- nations with equal rights and equality have right to freely choose their
sovereignty and international political status
- freedom of the seas
- no alliances
- no secret treaties
- freedom of trade
- end of colonies
- make the world safe for democracy
- Treaty of Versailles
- treaty between allies and germany
- reparations, billions in gold marks
- germany could have no air force
- could only have 100,000 soldiers
- Alsace-Lorraine had
to be given back to
France
- all colonies were given up
- No german soldiers in rhineland
- Treaty of St. Germain
- Austrian Empire
- dissolution of Austrian Empire
- had to pay reparations
- couldn't have large army
- accepted all blame
- had to consult league of nations
- Treaty of Trianon
- Hungary successor of Austria Hungary empire
- lost 72% of territory, 64% of inhabitants
- includes 3.3 mill ethnic
Hungarians living outside of
Hungary
- had lots of political,
economic, and social
consequences
- Treaty of Neuilly
- Bulgaria
- had to pay, give up
land, accept defeat,
take blame, weaken
army, etc
- "2nd National Catastrophe"
- pushed them into arms of nazis before wwii
- Treaty of Serves
- former ottoman empire
- kingdom of hejaz
granted international
recognition
- Armenia recognized as established state
- allies control ottoman empire's finances
- Ottoman empire
restricted to 50,700 men,
navy could only have 7
sloops and 6 torpedo
boats, no air force
- France got
Syria and
neighboring
parts of SE
anatolia with
other territories
- Italy got Dodecanese Islands
- Treaty of Lansanne
- followed failure of Treaty of Sevres
- stop of
hostility
between
nationalists
and allies
- defined borders of modern turkey
- turkey gave up claims to ottoman empire
- allies recognize turkish sovereignty