Who had the greatest influence
The treaty of Versailles was influenced by a lot of different people. The people with the most influence were probably President Woodrow Wilson of the USA and George Clemenceau of France. I am going to try and decide which of these two had the most influence. In order to do this I will need to look at what each of them hoped to achieve and what they actually got. Both Wilson and Clemenceau had one common objective in the peace treaties, to insure future peace. However they had very different ideas on how it should be done. They also had very different reasons for wanting it. Woodrow Wilson thought the best way to keep the peace was through a peacekeeping organisation through which all problems and disputes would be sorted out. He thought Germany should be made to pay for the war but should not be victimised as this would only lead to further problems. Wilson came to the Paris peace talks with a very set agenda that he put to everyone in the form of his four principles and fourteen points. His four principles were:4) A future peace keeping organisationThe fourteen points were based around these. George Clemenceau thought that the best way
Germany was made to give its merchant fleet to Britain; this obviously benefited Britain a lot but also Clemenceau because it made it harder for Germany to build up a strong economy in the future. He wanted free trade and removal of economic barriers, again this did not happen. This was what Wilson had wanted very badly; it was one of his four principles. To see what Wilson achieved I will go through his fourteen points and see which of them he achieved and which he didn't. This was what Clemenceau wanted because it brought down the German economy but it also helped Wilson because it meant Germany couldn't do as much trade so it opened up new markets for America. The next point was independence for Montenegro, Romania and Serbia and Serbia to be given a coastline. The establishment of the League of Nations had a great impact on the world. Wilson then wanted Turkey to be an independent state, other parts of the Ottoman Empire to be given independence and the Dardenelles to be permanently free to all shipping. The treaty also placed restrictions on the number of trains and merchant ships that Germany could own, the rest of them were paid to the allies. This stopped it from forming what could be a very powerful nation in the centre of Europe. This was what Clemenceau wanted because he felt that the war was Germany's fault and it should be punished. This was achieved with the establishment of the League of Nations. Germany was banned from ever joining forces with Austria. This was not achieved and it was still only the big powers that got their say in what happened. The treaty also made the establishment of the League of Nations.
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