Treaty of Versailles - IGCSE

• The ceasefire of November 1918 was called Armistice.
• The Versailles Conference began in January 1919 with 32 countries in attendance.
• Sir Eric Geddes wanted 'everything you can squeeze out of a lemon, and a bit more'.
• The three most important men at the Versailles Conference were Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and David Lloyd George, nicknamed 'The Big Three'.
• Georges Clemenceau was the prime minister of France and wanted revenge, punishment, Germany to pay reparations, and for Germany to be weakened.
• Woodrow Wilson was the President of America and wanted to make the world safe, end war, have a fair peace, implement the 14 Points, and establish a League of Nations.
• The 14 Points were Wilson's ideas for a better world.
• The three main ideas of the Fourteen Points were disarmament, League of Nations, and self-determination.
• The assembly, where Wilson wanted countries to talk about their problems, instead of going to war, was called the League of Nations.
• David Lloyd George was the Prime Minister of Britain and wanted Germany to pay, but not too much, justice, not revenge, not too harsh, and a halfway point.
• The Treaty of Versailles had four terms: Land, Army, Money, and Blame (Clause 231).
• Clause 231 of the Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the war.
• Reparations were the money Germany had to pay for the damage done during the war.
• The amount of reparations was eventually set at £6,600 million.
• The Treaty of Versailles said five things about Germany’s armed forces: Germany was forbidden to have submarines, Germany was forbidden to have an air force, Germany could have a navy of only six battleships, Germany could have an Army of just 100,000 men, and Germany was not allowed to place any troops in the Rhineland.