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This is a picture of the actual Treaty of Verasailles.

NOTES: WWI LOSSES
 * France
 * area larger than Wales was ruined
 * farmland turned useless by explosive shells
 * farm animals were eaten
 * two million people fled from homes, 3/4 of a million homes were destroyed
 * 1.4 million deaths, 2.5 million wounded
 * Belgium
 * German armies stripped machinery from factories, took craps and rationed food, melted church bells to make guns, and shot rebels.
 * 50,000 soldiers dead
 * Britain
 * suffered less than either French or Belgians
 * no part of their country was ever occupied by the enemy
 * 750,000 British soldiers lay dead and 1,500,000 wounded, many crippled for life
 * British government deeply in debt
 * Italy
 * 600,000 dead
 * north-east devastated
 * Russia
 * hunger and death of 1,700,000 soldiers
 * pay heavy price for surrender to Germany
 * United states
 * suffered least
 * only 116000 men
 * Germany
 * country not devastated
 * 2 million soldiers killed
 * faced starvation

Paris Peace Conference
 * Great Expectations **
 * biggest peace conference ever
 * hundreds of politicians, 32 nations
 * was mainly led by big three: "**David Lloyd George** of Britain, Georges **Clemenceau** of France, and **Woodrow Wilson** of USA
 * each had different ideas
 * France wanted Germans to pay a lot and make them so weak
 * Wilson wanted to make future wars impossible by creating fair peace
 * League of Nations
 * for peace treaties
 * no secret agreements
 * national self-determination
 * minorities allowed to form own government
 * reduce armed forces
 * David Lloyd George wanted to make the Germans pay like Clemenceau

Making the Peace
 * Paris Peace Conference became a free-for-all where victors wanted to carve up lands of defeated powers
 * Germany, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey did not attend


 * The Treaty of Versailles **
 * On June 28, 1919, politician left Paris to Versailles
 * signed the Treaty of Versailles, which dealt with Germany

Sections, Clauses Summary: After the Great War many countires were severely wounded and all expected gain back what they had lost during the war. In order to do this, the allies decided to make peace treaties to make sure that there won't be a war like this one ever again. They held the Paris Peace conference. There they made the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaties of Saint-Germain, Trianon, the Treaty of Neuilly, and the Treaty of Sevres. They also formed the League of nations
 * League of Nations set up, first 26 clauses described how it worked called the Covenant of the League of Nations
 * Germany gave land to neighboring countries: Danzig, Saar, and Memel governed by League of Nations; Saar Valley givent o France
 * All Germany's overseas colonies taken and put under rule of the League of Nations
 * land taken from Russia given back, some of it created Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
 * Germany's armed forces reduced to the bare minimum - 100,000 men and a navy with no more than 6 battleships, no submarines or air force
 * western part of Germany made into demilitarized zone - no weapons allowed
 * Germany forbidden to unite with Austria to make single German-speaking state
 * Germany had to accept blame for starting the Great War, known as war guilt clause
 * Germany had to pay reparations, to the Allies, mainly France
 * Germans had not been consulted
 * government resigned
 * Allies threatened to invade if they did not sign
 * German government led into the hall and forced to sign

Questions: What did the Allies hope to achieve with the treaties of the Paris Peace Conference? What did the Allies hope to achieve with the League of Nations? Why would the allies want western Germany to be a demilitarized zone? How did the allies get Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles? Who were the main leaders of the Paris Peace Conference?

Works Cited: http://andydobson.net/images/VersaillesTreaty231%5B1%5D.jpg