Leaders Motives Flashcards
What did Clemenceau Want from the treaty
Destroy Germany - No army
- Demilitarise Rhineland - Weak economy - NO THREAT
British Demands
Britain Harsh Treaty
- No sympathy
- Food shortages
- Russian treatment - Brest-Litovsk
- Pay for damages of war
Lloyd Gorge and election
Lloyd gorge election pint was “Make Germans pay”
1918
Britain Facts for Harsh Treaty
over 1 million casualties Anti German propaganda
Major Food shortages in
Brest-Litovsk Germany took 25% of population +land
Woodrow Wilson
14 Point Program (Clemenceau criticised)
Lasting peace
Fair
France And The War
Over 2/3 of the men in army had died/injured
Huge damage to land and industry
Want Germany never able to attack
Wilson Country Leadership
Wilson wanted smaller countries to be self ruled and not create large empires
Democracy in defeated counties (Weimer Republic)