Was The Treaty Of Versailles Just?
In 1919, the French, British and the USA did not like Germany for starting the war and wanted to have all the countries signing a treaty to negotiate peace. Geddes said "we will get everything you can squeeze out of a lemon, and a bit more" he said this to really make Germany pay for what they did because of the pain they had caused them.The "Big Three" was Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. It was originally the "Big Four" but Italy was dropped because they only talked about their wants. Clemenceau wanted: The Rhineland as a buffer state, Maximum reparations for civilian damage and military costs, To continue the wartime alliance with Britain and America, To ally with Poland and Czechoslovakia, To protect France from Germany.France and Germany had been enemies for a long time; Germany had taken Alsasc-Lorrain off France in 1871. This meant that Clemenceau wanted to have more allies to protect France from Germany. Germany had caused France a lot of damage and money, in human costs and economic costs. For this reason he wanted maximum repara
They had thought that they would be offered "The Fourteen Points", which had been offered earlier by Wilson, but they weren't. Most of the British saw the treaty as an agreement. Lloyd George wanted: To take over Germany's colonies in the Ottoman Empire, To pretend to treat Germany very hard. For this reason the public wanted Germany treated very hard. The future looked grim for Germany, most Germans felt they had no future, Germany thinks the treaty is too hard on them. This meant that Britain and America would help defend France if anyone attacked them. Germany did not feel as if they had started the war, this was known as the "War Guilt Clause". They accepted the "Treaty Of Guarantee" in return. This meant that if Germany recovered then the future looked grim for France, as Germany would want revenge. The Versailles Treaty was neither just nor unjust. This was because they feared that they couldn't pay the reparations and they thought that too much land had been taken away from them. They thought that the reparations were the correct amount, and that Germany had the correct amount of territory. France wanted every bit of money that they could get. Britain acquired German colonies in Africa and Germany moved there fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919. France is also less industrialised than Germany.
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