Peacemaking

Cards (15)

  • The big 3
    -Lloyd George GB punishment but not too hard (wants trade)
    -George's Clemenceau FRANCE Alsace-Lorraine back (crush Germany)
    -Woodrow Wilson US self determinations, 14 points, free trade&LofN, no secret treaties
  • 14 Point Plan - League of Nations
  • TofV signed
    1919
  • GARGL
    Guilt - article 231taking the blame
    Army - reduced to 100,000 men, demilitarised Rhineland, no air force, 6 ships
    Reparations - £6,600 million set in 1921 (take till 1987)
    German colonies - all taken , polish corridor, Saar, Danzig, Alsace-Lorraine
    League of Nations - can't join (periphery if European affairs)
  • Reactions
    Germans - blamed social democrats for signing - called it a Diktat, didn't decide if they wanted to decide
    US - senate didn't ratify treaty, enstérer policy of isolationism
    UK - happy about getting colonies and reducing navy(rule Britannia), did think too harsh
    France - pissed, not harsh enough
    Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia - lots of different people displaced
  • Yugoslavia
    Bosnia, Hungary
  • Czechoslovakia
    Sudetenland, Czechs, Slovaks
  • For TofV
    Had to be done fast
    Damage needed paying
    Was Germanys fault
    Germans were harsh to Russia in Brest-Litovsk
  • Against TofV
    Caused resentment in Germany
    Opens doors for extremes
    Economic issues all over Europe (were key players)
    Unfair to only disarm germany
    LofN wouldn't work without all nations
    Germany want revenge
  • St Germain 1919
    Austria, land lost, reparations, reduced army, not allowed Anshcluss
  • Trianon 1920

    Hungary land, reparations, reduced army
  • Neuilly
    Bulgaria - no access to sea, land, reparations, reduced army
  • Sevres Treaty 1920

    Turkey - lost control of Black Sea, land gone and reparations
  • Lausanne 1923

    Turkey Mustafa Kemal resisted
  • Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia

    Old Austrian Hungarian empire