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WilsonsFourteen Point Plan and Treaty of
Versailles
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WWI
  • The war is coming to an end.
  • All of the Central Powers have left Germany.
  • Germany has been getting leaflets dropped by
    Allied pilots explaining a peace plan by Woodrow
    Wilson called the Fourteen Point Plan.
  • Germans agree to an Armistice because they expect
    to get the Fourteen Point Plan.
  • Armistice is a cease fire.

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Woodrow Wilson
  • Wilson didnt believe in revenge.
  • He believed in the power of kindness.
  • Wilson proposes the Fourteen Point Plan.

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Fourteen Point Plan
  1. An end to secret agreements
  2. Freedom of the seas
  3. Free trade
  4. Limit on arms
  5. Peaceful settlement of dispute over colonies
  6. Self-Determination (ends the old imperialist
    system that let winning nations get foreign
    colonies)
  7. League of Nations

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League of Nations
  • Wilson expected to guarantee freedom to all the
    worlds people and keep peace between nations
    with his League of Nations.
  • Wilson traveled to Europe because he wanted other
    countries to view America as the peacemaker.
  • Many Americans worried about America getting
    involved in Europes problems.

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Without a League of Nations to enforce peace,
there might be another war -- and it will be much
worse than the Great War.
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Have all of the causes of war been addressed?
  • Is their any winner or loser in this treaty?
  • Is it fair to the Germans, British, and French?

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France and Great Britain
  • Allies like France and Great Britain dislike
    Wilsons Fourteen Point Plan.

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Germany
  • Expects the Fourteen Point Plan to be the terms
    when they sign an armistice on November 11, 1918.

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Big Four Meet at Versailles
  • Italy - Vittorio Orlando
  • Great Britain - Lloyd George
  • France - Georges Clemenceau
  • USA - Woodrow Wilson
  • Discuss terms of surrender and agree to a treaty

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What do they want in the treaty?
  • Revenge
  • Great Britain
  • France
  • Italy
  • Fourteen Point Plan
  • USA
  • Germany

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What do the Germans get?
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Treaty of Versailles
  • Allies strip Germany of all colonies.
  • Alsace-Lorraine returned to France.
  • Poland is created (part of it through old
    Germany.)
  • Saar territory is put under French control for 15
    years.
  • 5. German land given to Czechoslovakia.

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  • Rhineland is occupied for 15 years.
  • 7. Germans pay 65 billion reparations
  • 8. Army limited to 100,000 men.
  • 9. Germany is officially blamed for starting the
    war.
  • 10. Navy cut to 6 battleships, 6 cruisers, 12
    destroyers, and 12 torpedo boats.
  • 11. League of Nations is formed.

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World War I On the Home Front
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