The Paris Peace Process.
What is the Paris Peace Process? its where the peace conference was held during WWI. It took place in Paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from 29 countries. The Peace of Paris Treaties reshaped the map of Europe and the world and punished Germany.
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Describe Wilson's 14 points-a speech deliverd by president wilson to congress. The address was intended to assure the country that WWI was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. Said that we were in the war to change the world and not to just take land from people. The other countries thought it was dumb that we were going to easy on Germany. The 14 points is what Wilson wanted treaty of versailles to be but what he wanted did not happen. The Treaty of Versailles ended up being big on punishing Germany. Europe got a lot more countries, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Finland, and Yugoslavia
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Describe the Treaty of Versailles in detail and the impact it had on Germany and Europe-Germany lost a lot of territory. League of Nations took over colonies of Germany. France really wanted Germany to be punished. They wanted to hurt there army. Killed the German military. Franve got Rhineland, it was in Germany but the area wouldn't allow German soldiers or weapons. Sort of a safe zone between Germany and France. Financial-Germany had to pay 33 billion dollars for war damages, most of it went to Great Britain and France, but they used it to pay us back since they owed us.
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League of Nations: five permanent members- Great Britain, France, Italy, U.S. (never joined), Japan. Four non-permanent members that rotated. All members must submit disputes for investigation, arbitration, and settlement. Germany and Soviet Union not allowed to join right away.
-Why U.S. didn't ratify Treaty of Versailles? U.S. senators thought joining it would push us into war constantly.
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