Today we continued taking more notes:
More on the Treaty of Versailles:
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. This was Clause 231, also known as the infamous "War Guilt Clause"
- Germany, as it was responsible for starting the war as stated in Clause 231, was therefore responsible for all the war damage caused by the First World War. Therefore, they had to pay reparations, the bulk of which would go to France and Belgium to pay for the damage done to both countries by the war. The figure was eventually put at $23 billion.
- A League of Nations was set of to keep world peace
League of Nations
- Five permanent members:
- Great Britain, France, Italy, United States, Japan
- Four non-permanent members that rotated
- All four members must submit disputes for investigation, arbitration, and settlement
- If a member nation ignored, the League of Nations could take action
- Type of action?? Economic sanctions: if a country did not agree with their decision and caused problems, everyone would stop trading with them
- France wanted an international army but the U.S. and G.B. did not
- Germany and the Soviet Union were not allowed to join right away
- The U.S. never joined because the Republicans thought that we would be at war consantly
- President Wilson thought it would be the opposite.
Now we started on World War 1 blog discussions.
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