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■ Warm Up Question:
Creating a Treaty of Versailles, 1919
■ Students will be assigned to one of 3 groups
including Britain, France, & United States and
will create a Treaty of Versailles to end the war
–In your groups, review the things that are
most important to you & develop a plan
–Break into treaty groups & negotiate a
treaty with the 2 other nations
–After you have created your treaty, add up
your points and see which nation won
Topic Britain France USA
War Guilt Yes/No
Should this clause be included in the treaty?
“Germany is responsible for all the damage of the war”
Army Number
How many troops will Germany be allowed to
maintain?
Number
How many airplanes should Germany be allowed to
keep?
Navy Number
How many battleships will Germany be allowed to
keep?
Number
How many submarines should Germany be allowed to
keep?
Rhineland--The area between France and Germany Check one box
(Choose one)
Germany split up into many tiny states.
Rhineland made an independent state free of Germany
control
Germany is not allowed to keep its military in the
Rhineland
Reparations How many billion
How much money should Germany be forced to pay? dollars
League of Nations Yes/No
Should a League of Nations be created to maintain
peace in the world after World War I?
New Territories Yes/No
Alsace Lorraine (land taken by Germany in 1871)
should be returned to France
Recognize the Polish people and create a nation of Yes/No
Poland from lands taken from Germany and Russia
German overseas colonies should be taken from them Yes/No
and made into ‘mandates’ overseen by European
powers.
Austria-Hungary should be split into two smaller, Yes/No
weaker nations: Hungary and Austria
Recognize the Czech people and create Czechoslovakia Yes/No
from land taken from Austria-Hungary and Germany
Given independence to former Russian territories of Yes/No
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Recognize Slavic nationalism and give the Slavic
territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia Yes/No
Total Points
World War I was On November 11, 1918, the
fought between the Germany government
Allies & Central Powers agreed to an armistice &
from 1914 to 1918 World War I came to an end
World War I was the
largest, most deadly, 8.5 million soldiers &
& most destructive war 13 million civilians died
the world had yet seen as a result of the war
World War I was the
largest, most deadly, 21 million soldiers were
& most destructive war wounded during the war
the world had yet seen
World War I was the Homes, farms, towns were
largest, most deadly, destroyed; The war cost
& most destructive war $338 billion & most national
the world had yet seen treasuries were empty
In 1919, representatives The conference was
from 32 nations attended the led by the “Big Four”:
Paris Peace Conference to Britain, France, Italy,
write a treaty to end the war & the United States
Neither
U.S. Germany
President nor any of theFrench
Central Powers
Premier
were allowed
Woodrow to attend…Russia
Wilson Georgecould not
Clemenceau
attend because they
Italian Prime Minister
already quit World War I
British Prime Minister
Vittorio Orlando David Lloyd George
Britain
Creating
& France
a treaty would Britain
not be easy
& France
because
wanted
wanted
the to
major
weaken
powers had Germany
different agendas
to accept full
Germany so it could blame, pay reparations, &
never go to war again lose all overseas colonies