Peacemaking

• 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