The Peace Treaties

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The Peace Treaties

• Aim to revise the Paris Pace Conference

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The Big Three
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THE FOURTEEN POINTS
Wilson wanted a fair treaty that wouldnt
encourage Germany to seek revenge in the future

• 1 No secret treaties.
• 2 Free access to the seas in peacetime or
  wartime.
• 3 Free trade between countries.
• 4 All countries to work towards disarmament.
• 5 Colonies to have a say in their own future.
• 6 German troops to leave Russia.
• 7 Independence for Belgium.
• 8 France to regain AlsaceLorraine.
• 9 Frontier between Austria and Italy to be
  adjusted.
• 10 Self-determination for the peoples of eastern
  Europe (they should rule themselves).
• 11 Serbia to have access to the sea.
• 12 Self-determination for the people in the
  Turkish Empire.
• 13 Poland to become an independent state with
  access to the sea.
• 14 League of Nations to be set up.

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SIX TERMS OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES memory
word GARGLE

• Guilt clause 231 Germany accepted blame for
  causing all the loss and damage of the war.
• Army army 100,000/ no submarines/ no
  aeroplanes/ 6 battleships/ Rhineland
  de-militarised
• Reparations 6,600 million in instalments,
  until 1984).
• Germany lost land Alsace-Lorraine to France/
  Saar to France (15 years)/ West Prussia and Upper
  Silesia to Poland/ Danzig a free city/ German
  colonies became mandates of the League of
  Nations.
• League of Nations set up.
• Extra points forbade Anschluss/ Estonia, Latvia
  and Lithuania independent states.

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Germanys Reaction to Versailles
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Was the Treaty fair?