1. THE VERSAILLES
SETTLEMENT
WERE THE PEACE
TREATIES FAIR?
LESSON 1

2. BY THE END OF THIS LESSON, YOU
SHOULD KNOW:
LO:
1.what a peace treaty is;
2.the state of the major countries at the end of the First
World War;
3.three men who had the job of writing a peace treaty with
Germany;
4.What the overall mood was in 1919 and how it affected
the producing of a peace treaty.
Keywords:
Peace Treaty, The Paris Peace Conference, The Treaty of
Versailles, Allies, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Lloyd
George, Clemenceau, Wilson, responsibility, damage,
punishment, economies, industries, casualties

3. This is the front
page of a treaty.
A treaty is a
document which
officially ends
a war.
It tells the
defeated power
how they are to
be punished.

4. An aerial photo of
Ypres, Belgium

5. The French town of
Cambrai, 1918

6. What would be the state of France at the end of the war?

7. What would be the state of Germany at the end of the war?

8. How did the British view
the Germans at the end
of the war?

10. Shows Germany as beaten
but still big and solid enough British and
to be dangerous French police
Devastation
caused by war
Shows what cartoonist
thinks the Treaty
terms should do to
Germany
Large and solid
(prisoner won’t
escape)
Suggests cartoonist
thinks Germany will try
to worm out of
responsibility for war

11. This is the palace of
Versailles.
It is just outside Paris.

12. In 1919, three men
travelled to Paris to
write a treaty to
officially end the war.

13. This is the Hall of
Mirrors at the palace
of Versailles.
In this room on 28th
June 1919, the First
World War officially
came to an end.
But the treaty which
was signed caused
enormous problems.

14. This document is the
Treaty of Versailles.
It told the Germans
how they were going
to be punished for the
damage done in the war.

15. WHO WERE THE MEN WHO MADE THE
TREATY?

17. Woodrow President of
Wilson the USA

18. Woodrow President of
Wilson the USA

19. Woodrow President of
Wilson the USA

21. Prime
Georges
Minister of
Clemenceau France

22. Prime
Georges
Minister of
Clemenceau France

23. Prime
Georges
Minister of
Clemenceau France

25. Prime
David
Minister of
Lloyd-George Britain

26. Prime
David
Minister of
Lloyd-George Britain

27. Prime
David
Minister of
Lloyd-George Britain

28. THESE THREE MEN HAD VERY DIFFERENT
IDEAS ABOUT HOW GERMANY SHOULD BE
TREATED.

29. I want I want
peace Germany
based on treated
my 14 fairly.
Points
I want a League of Nations set up
to keep peace in the future.

30. WHAT WERE PRESIDENT
WILSON’S 14 POINTS?
1 No secret treaties.
2 Free access to the seas in peacetime or wartime.
3 Free trade between countries.
4 All countries to work towards disarmament.
5 Colonies to have a say in their own future. They were his plan
6 German troops to leave Russia. for peace!
7 Independence for Belgium.
8 France to regain Alsace–Lorraine.
9 Frontier between Austria and Italy to be adjusted.
10 Self-determination for the peoples of eastern Europe (they should rule
themselves).
11 Serbia to have access to the sea.
12 Self-determination for the people in the Turkish Empire.
13 Poland to become an independent state with access to the sea.
14 League of Nations to be set up.

31. WHAT WERE PRESIDENT
WILSON’S 14 POINTS?
1 No secret treaties.
2 Free access to the seas in peacetime or wartime.
3 Free trade between countries.
4 All countries to work towards disarmament.
5 Colonies to have a say in their own future. They were his plan
6 German troops to leave Russia. for peace!
7 Independence for Belgium.
8 France to regain Alsace–Lorraine.
9 Frontier between Austria and Italy to be adjusted.
10 Self-determination for the peoples of eastern Europe (they should rule
themselves).
11 Serbia to have access to the sea.
12 Self-determination for the people in the Turkish Empire.
13 Poland to become an independent state with access to the sea.
14 League of Nations to be set up.

32. France I want
was Germany
destroyed treated
by harshly.
Germany!
I want
Alsace-
Lorraine
I want peace REVENGE and
and SECURITY. reparations

33. I am mainly However,
in favour I have to
of keep the
Germany British
being people
treated happy and
fairly. they want
Germany
treated
harshly.

34. TREATMENT OF GERMANY
Harsh Fair

35. TREATMENT OF GERMANY
Harsh Fair

36. ARE ‘THE BIG THREE’ GOING TO BE
ABLE TO AGREE?
• No, they have very different aims.
• Clemenceau is going to be a problem because his
views are totally opposite to Wilsons’.
• Lloyd George is stuck in the middle of these two
opposing views.
• Any peace will have to be a compromise.