Agreements between pairs

• Kaiser Wilhelm II left Germany when it became clear that his country was losing the war. Now he was living in a comfortable castle in Holland. The Kaiser had always made clear that he was in charge of Germany and that he controlled the army and navy. In Britain, there was talk among the public that he should be hanged, but the Americans didn't agree. When Holland refused to give up the Kaiser, he was allowed to continue living there.
• France and Belgium had suffered the most damage during the war, but Britain had spent the most money. Public opinion in Britain and France put a lot of pressure on Clemenceau and Lloyd George to force Germany to pay high reparations to help repair the damage they had caused by starting the war. At first the British asked for reparations to be set at £24 billion, the French £44 billion, and America £4.4 billion
• The Big Three agreed that the size of the German army should be reduced, however they found it difficult to reach an agreement on how much of an army Germany should be left with. The French viewed a large German army as a danger to France and wanted to reduce it as much as possible. Britain and America were worried that communists could take over Germany and argued that the new German government needed an army in order to put down a possible rebellion at home. Eventually the three leaders agreed to cut the size of Germany's army to 100,000 men