Comparison Of Woodrow Wilson And The Treaty Of Versailles

They are refer to the four top allied powers and their leaders met at Paris Peace Conference in January 1919. The leaders were composed of Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau of France. They wanted to establish peace after World War. George Clemenceau wanted revenge and want to punish Germany for what they have done. He wanted to make Germany pay for the damage done during the war and wanted to weaken Germany so France would never be invaded. Wilson did his own and published Fourteen Point saying what he wanted. He wanted to disarmament, and a League of Nations where countries could talk out of their problems, without war. David George wanted justice,
The major decisions were the creation of the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, that had the five treaties with defeated states, also the German and Ottoman overseas possessions as mandates, mainly for Britain and France. The main was the Treaty of Versailles, which was created by the Big Four, which they laid guilt for the war on Germany. It was shameful for Germany and had to pay for the expensive reparations. Also it included the planned formation of the League of Nations that President Woodrow Wilson was a strong supporter of it and believed that it would prevent future wars and that it would serve both as an international forum and an international collective security arrangement. The French and British wishes were that the treaty of Versailles required the German government to surrender about 10 percent of its prewar territory in Europe and all of the overseas possessions. It made the harbor city of Danzig and the coal-rich Saarland to controlled by the League of Nations, therefore it allowed France to exploit the economic resources of Saarland until 1935. It restricted the German navy and army in size and it made the high-ranking German officials to be turned into war