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Why Wilson’s Peace Plan Failed
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Paris Peace Talks: The Big Four
Prime Minister of Great Britain, David Lloyd George (#1 Power)
French Premier Georges Clemenceau (revenge) US President Woodrow Wilson (idealism) Italian Premier Vittorio
Orlando (territory) Germany and Russia
excluded
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Wilson’s 14 Points
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Wilson's Mistakes
Bi-Elections of 1918: partisan politics, Republicans gain control House first time since 1910
American Peace Delegation: no Senators or prominent Republicans
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge not taken
Wilson accused of Grandstanding
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Treaty of Versailles
War Guilt Clause (Art. 231) Germany solely responsible for starting war and destruction
Reparations to be paid by Germany = $56 billion
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Treaty of Versailles
Germany was stripped of colonies Germany lost Saar Basin (returned by plebiscite
1935), Posen, parts of Schleswig and Silesia and Alsace-Lorraine
German disarmament
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New nations & problems created
Italy's 200,000 persons non-Italians
German speaking populations in Poland & Czechoslovakia
Polish Corridor
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New nations & problems created
Russian loss of territory
Japan given Shantung, China
British & French Mandates in Middle East
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Did not deal with
did not address issues that caused the war reduction in arms
trade barriers
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League of Nations
Wilson’s idea to resolve world conflict without war
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US Ratification Process
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Opposition to the Treaty of Versailles
Unpopular with German, Irish, & Jewish Americans Republican feud with Wilson, esp. Henry Cabot Lodge Reservationists Irreconcilables = diehard
isolationists including Hiram W. Johnson (CA) William E. Borah (IL) Robert La Folette (WI)
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Wilson's 3-week national speaking tour
29 cities Pueblo CO, collapsed
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Wilson's 3-week national speaking tour
Returned to Washington, suffered a stroke paralyzed left side incapacitated 6 months
Edith Wilson acting President
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Senate Vote
45 revisions proposed limit US obligations to the
League of Nations Wilson opposed any
changes (He kept us out of peace!)
Final vote -- treaty rejected, failing by 7 votes 49-35
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Wilson’s Legacy
Wilson received Nobel Peace Prize in 1920
died embittered in 1924
his predictions of future problems for Europe would come true