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Motives of the 'Big Three'
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1 This is George Clemenceau, leader of France after World War I
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2 Clemenceau‘s main aims of France was to secure French frontiers and to severely punish Germany
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3 The US President Woodrow Wilson, wanted the treaty based on his 16 points
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4 The Big Three, had very similar ideas about how they wanted to treat Germany
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5 The USA joined WWI in 1917 and had suffered in the region of 116,000 military deaths.
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6Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George regarded Woodrow Wilson as a bit of an interfering idealist, and as someone who knew little about European politics.
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7 David Lloyd George, as British prime minister was out to punish Germany as severely as possible.
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8Georges Clemenceau was especially angry towards Germany as he had seen Germany invade France back in 1870/71
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9 One of Woodrow Wilson‘s main aims was the self determination for the peoples of Europe.
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10 The treaty was ‘fair’ in the sense that the German delegation were able to be part of the negotiations.
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11Reparations was not settled at the Conference, it was delegated to a special commission.
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12The main military terms of the treaty were: its army to be reduced to 100,000 man, no general staff, no conscription, no Air Force, no tanks, and a limited navy.
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13Lloyd George was concerned that by punishing and weakening Germany too harshly, democracy in Germany would be threatened by communism.
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14Lloyd George was his 'own man' - He didn't pay any attention to the demands of the British public calling for a tough treaty.
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15Compensation was high on the list of British 'demands' as they had spent 10 billion waging war.
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16Lloyd George was happy for the British army to be reduced in size so long as the German Navy was too.
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17Woodrow Wilson was keen for world disarmament - he believed WWI had in part been caused by an arms race. World disarmament would reduce the 'urge to war'.
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18Lloyd George was in favour of self-determination
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19Before WWI Germany was the second biggest market for British goods - Lloyd George wanted to be able to trade again with Germany so didn't want Germany so economically weak that this would not happen
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20Clemenceau was keen to achieve an independent Rhineland and was 'dissatisfied' with the fact that it was just demilitarised
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- (International Relations 1919 - 39) iGCSE History Test sobre Motives of the 'Big Three', creado por Drew Bott el 20/02/2019.
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- Drew Bott
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