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This is George Clemenceau, leader of France after World War I
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Clemenceau‘s main aims of France was to secure French frontiers and to severely punish Germany
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The US President Woodrow Wilson, wanted the treaty based on his 16 points
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The Big Three, had very similar ideas about how they wanted to treat Germany
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The USA joined WWI in 1917 and had suffered in the region of 116,000 military deaths.
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Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George regarded Woodrow Wilson as a bit of an interfering idealist, and as someone who knew little about European politics.
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David Lloyd George, as British prime minister was out to punish Germany as severely as possible.
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Georges Clemenceau was especially angry towards Germany as he had seen Germany invade France back in 1870/71
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One of Woodrow Wilson‘s main aims was the self determination for the peoples of Europe.
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The treaty was ‘fair’ in the sense that the German delegation were able to be part of the negotiations.
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Reparations was not settled at the Conference, it was delegated to a special commission.
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The main military terms of the treaty were: its army to be reduced to 100,000 man, no general staff, no conscription, no Air Force, no tanks, and a limited navy.
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Lloyd George was concerned that by punishing and weakening Germany too harshly, democracy in Germany would be threatened by communism.
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Lloyd George was his 'own man' - He didn't pay any attention to the demands of the British public calling for a tough treaty.
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Compensation was high on the list of British 'demands' as they had spent 10 billion waging war.
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Lloyd George was happy for the British army to be reduced in size so long as the German Navy was too.
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Woodrow Wilson was keen for world disarmament - he believed WWI had in part been caused by an arms race. World disarmament would reduce the 'urge to war'.
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Lloyd George was in favour of self-determination
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Before WWI Germany was the second biggest market for British goods - Lloyd George wanted to be able to trade again with Germany so didn't want Germany so economically weak that this would not happen
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Clemenceau was keen to achieve an independent Rhineland and was 'dissatisfied' with the fact that it was just demilitarised