He saw a strong Germany as key to helping Europe to rebuild. American President Woodrow Wilson was focussed on long lasting peace.British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was wary of punishing Germany too severely, but he was aware the British people wanted Germany to be made to pay for the war.The two countries had a history of conflict and bordered each other.
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He wanted Germany to be weakened so they would not be able to pose any threat to France in the future. French President George Clemenceau wanted Germany to be severely punished. Adolf Hitler and German President Paul von Hindenburg, shortly after Hindenburg asked Hitler to become chancellor in 1933.The Versailles conference was dominated by David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson: the leaders of the UK, France and America, often known as the ‘Big Three’.Įach of these leaders had contrasting aims. This later made some Germans come to resent the treaty because they felt that decisions were made about them, not with them. No Germans were invited to the conference while decisions were made, but they were expected to agree to and sign the treaty. Combined with these factors is the potential threat to the social order. In June, delegates from 32 countries met at the Palace of Versailles near Paris to make peace after World War One - the peace they hoped would ‘end all wars’. So in the immediate Post War era, there is a mass of suspicion within Germany.
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The task of drawing Europe’s post-war borders fell primarily to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-20. It was a defining chapter in the big book of war that gave birth to innovations like the field telephone, poison gas, gas masks, flamethrowers, the submachine gun, the light machine gun, the assault rifle, Sonar, the aircraft carrier, military aviation, the pilotless drone, the armored car, the self-propelled gun, the tank, the portable x-ray, a. The treaty was signed on 28 June 1919.ĭiscussions about what the treaty should include began in January 1919. Aftermath of World War One Professor David Stevenson explains how the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon and the Treaties of Neuilly and Svres re-drew Europe's post-war boundaries. The Treaty of Versailles was a peace agreement that marked the end of World War One.
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