Treaty of Versailles and 14 point programme

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Evie Davies

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  • Lloyd George: prime minister of England
  • Georges Clemenceau: president of France
  • Woodrow Wilson: president of the USA
  • Who wrote the 14 point programme?
    Woodrow Wilson
  • Woodrow Wilson suffered from strokes, this is believed by a few historians to be the reason as to why some of the 14 points was changed
  • Since 1879, Austro-Hungary were Germany's biggest allies, but the empire collapsed. Although, Austria was made up of 8 million people, it wasn't allowed to unify with Germany due to the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Navy down to 15,000
  • Army down to 100,000
  • The Rhineland was demilitarised and the Allied troops would occupy it for 15 years
  • Germany couldn't make poison gas, tanks, aircraft, submarines and ships were limited in their number
  • Reparations were not fixed in the Treaty of Versailles. In 1921, the Reparations Commission established the sum of 144 billion RM, £6.6billion. Many Germans argued they couldn't afford to pay this off, although this is debated.
  • War Guilt Clause (Article 231) said that Germany had to take complete guilt for the war