Here are some words to help remember the personalities: Lloyd George - Squeeze, Compromise, Navy Clemenceau - Tough, Cripple, Rhineland Wilson - Points, League, Fair, Trade

1. lesson objectives:
1. To know what the aims and personalities of the Big Three
were
To Know what the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were
2. To understand why it was so difficult for the Big Three
to agree on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

2.  You should have already written down
detailed explanations as to why your character
would choose your decision.
 You now need to get into character and write
down arguments for why your decision is the
best one and you need to put together
arguments for why choosing the other options
would be disastrous for the future of world
peace.
 We will be holding our own Conference in 30
minutes time ....

3.  Conference Itinerary:
 1. Who should be held responsible for starting the
war?
 2. who should pay for the damage caused by war?
 3. what should happen to Germany’s armed
forces?
 4. What should happen to Germany’s borders?
(Rhineland, Alsace-Lorraine, Saar?)
 5. What should happen to Germany’s colonies?
 6. The League of Nations?

4.  Come out of character
 As a class we need to decide which options we
would chose that would be fair and be the most
likely to ensure world peace from now on

5.  1.
 2.
 3.
 4.
 5.
 6.

6. "The Allied and Associated Governments
affirm, and Germany accepts, the
responsibility of Germany and her Allies for
causing all the loss and damage to which the
Allied and Associate Governments and their
nationals have been subjected as a consequence
of a war imposed upon them by the aggression
of Germany and her Allies."
Article 231

7.  Reparations:
Germany were ordered to pay the FULL cost of
the damage caused by the war. The bill was
£6,600 million!
Germany’s armed forces:
1. Army limited to 100,000 men
2. Germany not allowed armoured vehicles,
submarines or aircraft
3. Only 6 battleships

10. Germany lost all of its overseas
colonies, which was mainly in
Africa.
New Guinea went to Australia
Samoa went to New Zealand
The Marshall, Mariana and
Caroline Islands went to Japan

11.  A League of Nations would be set up as an
international ‘police force’
 All major nations would be invited to be apart
of it but Germany were not

12. The Treaty was designed
to cripple Germany
militarily, territorially and
WAR GUILT economically
CLAUSE
Germany had to accept GERMANY’S MILITARY
blame for starting WW1 FORCES REDUCED
NO UNION WITH AUSTRIA
- Army restricted to
100,000 men.
REPARATIONS
- No modern weapons such
Germany forced to pay
massive fine for war
THE TERMS as tanks, military air force.
damages - 1,000,000,000 OF THE TREATY OF - Navy could not have
Marks (6.6bn pounds). VERSAILLES battle ships over 10,000
tons and no U-Boats.
GERMAN OVERSEAS
1919
TERRITORRIES
RHINELAND TO BE DE-MILITARISED
Germany lost Chinese
ports [Amoy and
Tsingtao], Pacific Islands, GERMAN NATIONAL TERRITORY
and African colonies - Germany lost national territory which was given
[Tanganika and German to Belgium and Denmark, most went to Poland.
SW Africa].

13.  Guilt clause
 Armaments
 Reparations
 German land loss
 LEague of Nations

14.  This is a question that could easily come up in your exam so
you need to be able to give a detailed answer.
 Pupils are able to analyse the difficulties for agreement by
referring to a number of external factors which affected the
participants relationships and decisions during the
conference. Factors need to be presented in a structured way
and there needs to be a reasoned conclusion as to which
factor was of greatest significance
 Make sure you mention :
 The leader’s personalities
 The amount that their countries suffered
 Geographical position
 History - France and Germany
 Pressures from home (public)

15.  Give two marks for each explained point –
explain why this factor caused problems and
how (max mark of 6)
 Give two marks for a clear and justified
conclusion
 Give one mark if the answer has a good
strucutre and is written well

16.  Can you come think of any words to help us
remember the following information regarding
the ‘big three’
Lloyd George Clemenceau Wilson
1. A Realist 1. Tough and 1. He wanted a treaty
2. He promised to squeeze uncompromising based on his
the pips out of Germany 2. He wanted to Fourteen Points
3. He knew he was going cripple Germany 2. He wanted to set up
to have to Compromise 3. He wanted the a League of Nations
4. He wanted to keep Rhineland, Alsac 3. He wanted a Fair
British naval superiority e Lorraine treaty
5. He wanted German 4. He wanted 4. He wanted freedom
colonies Germany to pay of the seas (so USA
the full damage could trade with
caused Europe)