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14 Points & Treaty of Versailles

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Warm-up

  • If you had to write up a document outlining your plan for world peace, what points would you include in that document?

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The 14 points

  • Read Wilson’s 14 Points and answer the questions in your notebook.

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Victorious nations

  • “Big Four”
    • President Wilson of the U.S.
    • Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain
    • Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France
    • Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy

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War-guilt clause

  • “Big Four” met at Palace of Versailles to negotiate
  • France wanted German army reduced to 100,000 men and stripped of coal-rich Saar Valley
  • Great Britain wanted war-guilt clause
    • Germans have to accept responsibility for war
    • Pay $33 billion in reparations to Allies

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League of nations

  • Wilson lost his battle for “peace without victory,” but he did get the other nations to agree to the League of Nations to provide collective security