Attempt 2 Treaty of Versailles

Number of participants in Paris Peace Conference

32

France's PM

Clemenceau

Britain PM

Lloyd George

America's President

Wilson

France's President

Poincaré

Date of German invasions of France

1870, 1914

Demands of France

Permanent disarmament, high reparations, return of Alsace-Lorraine, colonies, independent Rhineland, Saar Basin to France

Date of US declaration of war

April 1917

Fourteen Points

Disarmament, self-determination, open diplomacy

British elections date

November 1918

British demands

Economic revival of Europe, reduce war making potential, not independent Rhineland, no Danzig to Poland, no French Saar Basin

War Guilt Clause

Article 231

Army restriction for Germany

100, 000 with no conscription

War equipment

No tanks or heavy artillery, no military or naval air force

Navy maximum

6 battleships, 12 destroyers, 6 light cruisers, 12 torpedo boats, no submarines

Fully demilitarised area

Rhineland

Occupation of Rhineland duration by Treaty

15 years

Area given to France

Alsace-Lorraine

Areas given to Belgium

Eupen, Malmédy, Monesnet

Area given to Denmark

North Schlewig

Areas given to Poland

West Prussia, Posen, parts of Ipper Silesia

Area given to Czechoslovakia

Hultschin

LoN plebiscite area

Saar Basin

Saar Basin France profit

Coal mines for 15 years

Area given to Lithuania

Memel

Free City administered by LoN with Polish trade port

Danzig

No union

Austria and Germany

-German colonies

100%

-German European land

13%

-German population

10%

-German coal resources

26%

-German iron ore deposits

75%

France proposed treaty to add security

Treaty of Guarantee

Clemenceau lost election date

January 1920

Colonies gained by just France

Syria, Lebanon

Colonies gained by Britain and France

Togoland, Cameroons

Colonies gained by just Britain

German south-west Africa, German east Africa, German New Guinea, Iraq, Transjordan, Palestine

US positives

• Covenant of LoN accepted

• Some disarmament

• Not independent Rhineland

• Not too harsh reparations

US negatives

• Harsh

• No free navigation of seas (British)

• Colonies

• Limited self-determination

US public political idea

Political isolation

Britain positives

• Moderate

• Colonies (+1.8 million miles squared)

• No German naval threat