Tuesday, December 13th

[3Marielle]

Continued with the presentations:14. Describe the points of the Treaty of Versailles.-A peace settlement after WWI ended in 1918, and it was signed on June 28th of 1919 in the Versailles Palace near Paris.-Blamed Germany for everything that happened in WWI-Allies (US, UK, France, and Italy) wanted the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire) pay for what they did-Big Four: David Lloyd George (U.K), George Clemenceau (France), Woodrow Wilson (US), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy)-Restrictions for Germany: paying for the damages, population deflation, and armed forces annihilation (navy was abolished and the entire country was under a basic mall security and all trade was completely lost)-German Reaction: Allies enforced the treaty, and said that if they would't agree, they would invade and enforce it--Germans were irate over the deal and wanted revenge taken (possibly by starting a new conflict against them)-US Reaction: The people of the nation were absolutely disgusted by the lack of generosity of the Treay of Versailles. But then there were some who thought that maybe we should be even stricter, mainly due to the imperialistic nature we had in the Spanish-American war. This was a very small group, mainly war veterans of both WWI and Spanish-American or Philippines War.-10,000,000 soldiers died throughout the course of the war.-League of Naions: group of countries to keep the peace and it was set up by Woodrow Wilson (Wison's baby)15. Why did the US never pass the Treaty of Versailles?-Personal enmity between Wilson and Lodge played a part. Wilson might have prudently invited a prominent Republican to accompany him to Paris to help ensure its laterpassage. Wison's fading health eliminated the possibility of making a strong personal appeal on behalf of the treaty-Ethnic groups in the US helped its defeat. The stubbornnes of the President led him to ask his own party to scuttle the treaty. The final results of all these factors had mammoth long term consequences.-Without the invovlement of he world's newest superpower, the League of Nations was doomed to failure.---------Will continue tomorrow---------