A Flawed Peace Flashcards
Paris Peace Conference Participants
Delegates from 32 countries, major players were Woodrow Wilson (US), Georges Clenenceau (France) and David Lloyd George (Great Britain)
Woodrow Wilson
US President
Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson’s plan that outlined a just and lasting peace
League of Nations
International peace organization, included allied war powers and 32 Allied and neutral nations, Germany and Russia were excluded
self-determination
allowing a country’s people to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live
Treaty of Versailles
1919- created by the League of Nations, between Germany and the allied powers
Russia left out of League of Nations
They were left out because of their early withdrawl from the war and and its Revolutionary leadership
War Guilt
Article 231 - Placed sole responsibility for the war on Germany’s shoulders. They had to pay for reparations to the Allies.
US did not ratify Treaty of Versaille
Was rejected because many Americans didn’t agree with the settlements, the League of Nations and just wanted to stay out of European affairs.
Washington’s Farewell Address
US cited from Washington’s Farewell Address: League of Nations was not as powerful without the US.
Henry Cabot Lodge - MA
Led opposition to Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
US - Isolationism
avoiding political/military involvement with other countries
Treaty of Versailles/Causes of WWII
Treaty was “a peace built on quicksand”. Did give way. Two decades later the bitterness of the treaty plunged the world into another major war.
