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The Big Three
- Georges Clemenceau
- The French Leader suffered a lot
from the war as most of the battle
were fought on French and Belgian
land. He saw the Treaty of Versailles
as a chance to cripple Germany
- He wanted to split Germany up into smaller
states and pay very large reparations
- He was nicknamed 'The tiger'
because he was so ferocious
- Woodrow Wilson
- The President of the USA was an idealist who
didn't think the Treaty should be too harsh as
Germany is not the only country to blame
- He wrote the Fourteen points of what he
wanted to achieve at the Paris Peace
Conference
- He wanted Global
disarmament
- He wanted to set up the
League of Nations
- He thought if Germany was
punished too hard, they
would one day want revenge!
- He wanted small countries
to have self-determination
- David Lloyd George
- Great Britain wanted Germany to lose its
navy as Britain is an island and to lose
it's colonies, things which Britain had
- He wanted Germany to
be able to trade with them
like they had once done
- He had public pressure back home as there was
an election coming up and he needed to satisfy
the people and so he sided with Clemenceau
- Agreed with Wilson
about Germany wanting
revenge