Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Paris Peace Conference 1919-20
- The Armistice 11/11/18
- Germany sought an armistice
- Wilson's 14 points
- Failure of Operation Micheal
- Arrival of US troops
- Allied blockade
- Mutiny and revolution
- Kaiser abdicated
- Terms
- withdraw troops from France
- withdraw troops from Rhineland
- surrender weapons
- Anti-German Mood
- Destruction of towns, farms
- in Belgium/ N. France
- Casualities
- 71% soldiers
- Atrocity stories
- Lusitana
- Edith Cavell
- Scarborough
- MPs promised electorate to make Germany pay
- Aims of Big 3
- Wilson
- 14 points
- self determination
- e.g. Poles, unrealistic
- disarmament
- league of nations
- Lloyd George
- needed some reparations
- didn't want to destroy trade w Germany
- promised electorate to make Germany pay
- threatened by Germany's colonies/ navy
- Clemenceau
- revenge
- heavy reparations to rebuild france
- take away territory with resources
- take back alsace lorraine
- prevent Germany attacking again
- Rhineland independent - buffer zone
- Terms or TOV
- Germany made to accept blame & pay reparation £6,600 million
- Germany lost 13% territory
- Alsace-Lorraine (iron)
- Polish Corridor (&Danzig) cut off east Prussia
- Saar (coal) run by league for 15 years
- Rhineland demilitarised & occupied
- Anschluss forbidden
- Germany lost colonies "unfit"
- lost 10% population
- army reduced to 100,000
- navy reduced
- ships handed to Britain (Scapa flow)
- no tanks, submarines or planes
- Verdict
- not as harsh as Brest-Litovsk
- considering pressures at conference: GB, Fr and USA
- created economic & political problems for Germany
- led to WW2
- 30% poland not polish, 3 million Germans in Cz
- German resentment of TofV
- believed they were fighting a defensive war
- didn't agree that they caused the war
- did not think they had surrendered
- wilsons 14 points
- Kaiser gone, don't punish the new govt.
- 'diktat' not invited to discussions
- terms
- cut into 2
- Poles given self determination but not Germans
- many germans in other countries
- defences
- army was German pride
- reduced
- Germany defenceless and disarmed
- Rhineland demilitarised
- not allowed in League
- described as unfit
- GBs hypocrisy - Amritsar massacre
- had to sight
- Other Treaties
- 1919 St Germain - Austria
- 1919 Neuilly - Bulgaria
- 1920 Trianon - Hungary
- 1920 Sevres - Turkey
- 1923 Lausanne