The Paris Peace Conference Of 1919

The treaty of the Versailles was an agreement between France, England and the United states. Its intentions were to prevent a second world war however, it was a total fail. An obvious reason for not being effective could be because not everyone was included in the conference such as Russia, and Central Powers. Instead, Prime minister George Clemenceau had thought he would speak for all of europe and wanted to be the strongest of europe. Clemenceau seeked revenge towards Germany, in fact he desired most dismantle the best of Germany 's military and their nationalist pride. As for the United States, Wilson implemented the fourteen points which focused on self determination of people. Only few of his points were included in the treaty but these points had been the reason for conflicts happening in europe. Participation from everyone is important and not allowing everyone 's input could lead to negative outcomes such as, The league of nations which most likely failed because the United States wasn’t allowed to participate.

The Treaty of Versailles formed after World War I forced Germany to pay great amounts in reparation payments, which was severely damaging to their economy and to their collective national ego. In addition, they were forced to greatly weaken their army by demobilizing, abolishing universal compulsory military service, and by having their army be comprised by no more than seven divisions of infantry and three divisions of cavalry. Furthermore, the country was also forced to return lands which they had viewed as 'Germanic' and had laid claim to, as well as overseas colonies, back to various other countries.

Between the years 1919-1939, the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany in many ways such as economically, politically, loss of German territories, and caused Germany’s armed forces to struggle. The Treaty of Versailles was when Germany and The Allies signed a peace treaty, ending WW1. The treaty stripped Germany 25,000 square miles of land and over 7 million people. The treaty also caused Germany to go into a great depression.

World War I ended with the Treaty of Versailles, a treaty that was largely negotiated by the Allied Powers - primarily Britain, France, and Russia - and whose purpose seemed to be the punishment of Germany, who had been part of the Central Powers. Germany was widely blamed for causing so much destruction measured both in lives and monetary value during the war, and once they lost, the victors imposed harsh sanctions and restrictions on German trade and military. Germany was unfairly used as a scapegoat at the end of the war, and did not deserve the restrictions and blame put on them. Such restrictions were morally and ethically unfair, and left Germany no room to rebuild their economy after a war that left them in shambles. During his

The Treaty of Versailles was meant to prevent another devastating World War, but instead it gave rise to the Nazi party and started the Second World War. World War I was a deadly internationally battle that killed 10 million soldiers and seven million civilians, and wounded ten million more. Germany and Austria-Hungary fought against France, England, Russia, and the United States, and ultimately lost. After the war ended, the leaders of the world, except from Germany, met and formed the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919. This agreement was meant to prevent future German aggression through strict rules. In reality, it helped cause World War II by imposing territorial losses, military restrictions, economic reparation, and a War Guilt Clause.

The Big Four: And Others of the Peace Conference, by Robert Lansing offers a firsthand perspective on what occurred during the Peace talks following the First World War. Robert Lansing primarily concentrates on the four biggest players during the Peace talks, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Vittorio E. Orlando. Lansing’s report of these four men compromised three fourths of the entire book, leaving the rest of the book to the representatives of other States, such as Eleftherios Venizelos, Emir Feisul, Louis Botha, and Ignace Jan Paderewski. One of the most significant features of this book is that it offers a different perspective of the Peace talks because it is a look at how people viewed these Statesmen and their actions at that time.

Wilson made many mistakes that the senate would use against him. When Wilson left for Europe on board the “George Washington” , he brought with him a peace commission. This peace commission consisted of Colonel House, Robert Lansing, General Tasker H. Bliss, and only one Republican, Henry D. White. The Republicans resented Wilson for only bringing one member of their party to represent them. However, Wilson had a “distrust of coalitions in politics.” The Republicans also felt that White “was not the representative which the Republican Party would themselves had chosen.” Wilson felt that by limiting his opposition in Europe he would have a better chance of attaining peace. However, this choice was the beginning of the opposition Wilson faced from his own country during the peace talks.

“Wilson arranged a peace conference that opened on January 18, 1919. The only ones that were in attendance were Wilson from the United States, David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy”,(Goldfield, 2014, p 676). “The Central Powers and Bolshevik Russia were excluded from the conference”, (Goldfield, 2014, p 676). Wilson’s Treaty was mainly one sided against the French and the British. He wanted Germany to accept full responsibility for starting the war along with having to pay huge reparations to the allies, give up land to France, Poland, Belgium and Denmark, cede it’s colonies limit its army and navy to small self-defense forces, destroy military bases, and promise not to manufacture or purchase armaments, (Goldfield, 2014, p 676). Wilson was hoping to bring peace among the League of Nations.

During the Paris Peace Conference, there were many different approaches how to create an effective solution after the conflicts of the war. Georges Clemenceau of France, who had also served during the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, wanted revenge on Germany by humiliating the country. The actions of the British representative, David Lloyd George, were driven purely by self-interest, and the Italian representative, Vittorio Orlando, was greedy in his pursuit to acquire colonies. However, the representative from the United States, President Wilson, sought to create a plan that would create a fair peace. Wilson felt that it was essential to create a proposal that would establish a liberal structure of peace to prevent major European powers from engaging in further conflict over issues such as colonies. The plan that President Wilson designed, called the Fourteen Points, outlined multiple objectives. First, the

Keynes, a liberal economist, who had been present at the peace conference in Paris thought Wilson’s principles were ‘wrongly conceived ....... and too little regard had been given to the economic realities’[5] but he looked on them more favourably than the eventual conditions in the Treaty of Versailles. Alan Sharp suggests that Keynes was torn between ‘fascination at the speed with which Lloyd George could absorb both atmosphere and complex briefs and disgust at his lack of fixed principles.[6] The British delegation containing on the one hand Jan Smuts, who took a more liberal stance on the Treaty and Billy Hughes, the Australian Prime-minister, who became the ‘most vocal exponent of a Carthaginian peace among the British delegation in Paris’[7] shows the divisions amongst the British delegation and possibly reflects the indecision in Lloyd George’s mind. He felt Germany needed to be left with enough room to recover and take her place in Europe but was anxious in the aftermath of the carnage of war that Germany should be seen to be punished. Italy’s Prime Minister, Vittorio Orlando, was not vociferous at the Conference but was asking for Fiume to be assigned to Italy but it had already been assigned to Yugoslavia. Wilson resisted Orlando’s request and he and the Italian delegation eventually gave up and removed

The Treaty of Versailles included fifteen parts and 440 articles of demands for the Germans.  Article 231 of the treaty, the “War Guilt Clause,” forced Germany to accept the full blame for initiating World War I.  They had to give up territories to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France. Moreover, their oversea colonies were assigned to the League of Nations.  The Allied powers also demanded the demilitarization of Germany, cruelly limiting the defeated nation’s army to 100,000 men, their conscription, and banned acquisition. Furthermore, Germany was stripped of their right to maintain an air force.  The treaty required Germany to punish Kaiser, the last German emperor during the First World War, and other leaders responsible for waging

One of the bloodiest and most devastating wars in history; World War I, was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Its conclusion was supposed to usher in the new world order, a time of peace and international prosperity and was hoped to be the last war mankind was to rage. In order to accomplish this and to determine the design and function of this new world the allies claiming to be victorious met in Paris in January of 1919, two months after the signing of an armistice by Germany. The main composites of the conference were hashed out in only six months, marked by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th, after which many important members, including most of the Counsel of Four, left Paris. The Peace Conference continued on for another six months, hashing out minor details,

Throughout the semester, the seventh period Modern World History class, has assimilated an ample amount of information. The information one has attained in the class can range from the catastrophes in early Europe, to the skirmishes of the present day world, and evidently the most important lesson was about the Peace Treaty of Versailles. The most salient event is the establishment of the Paris Peace Conference, because the results of the meeting initiated World War 2; dismembered many of the previous empires; and it was the first time where colonization was opposed. All these events were triggered by the end decree of the Paris peace conference and would initiate or settle future conflicts. The Paris peace conference ventured the future

The Paris Peace Conference took place in January 1919 at Versailles near Paris. The purpose of the gathering was to build up peace after World War I. In spite of the fact that about thirty countries took part, the agents of the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Italy wound up noticeably known as the "Enormous Four." The "Huge Four" commanded the procedures that prompted the detailing of the Treaty of Versailles, a settlement that finished World War I. The Treaty of Versailles explained the bargains came to at the meeting.

The military disaster which befell the Mid-European Confederacy in the autumn of 1918 was the signal for immediate political revolutions within its members. The revolutions, though precipitated in several instances by Socialists, proved to be uniformly mild and more conducive to democratic nationalism than to any basic social change.