1. The Fourteen Points
Write a list of points or rules for countries. These rules should be
designed to prevent future wars.
•Financial payments?
•Militaries?
•Territory?
•Alliances?
•New peacekeeping organizations?
•Blame or responsibility for starting war?
2. German Territorial Losses After the Treaty of Versailles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_losses_after_WWI.svg
3. The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:
1. The surrender of all German colonies to be controlled by the newly created League
of Nations
2. The return of Alsace-Lorraine (German/French border) to France
3. German land used to create the new countries of Czechoslovakia and Poland;
4. Elections to be held in northern Schleswig (Denmark) to settle the Danish-German
frontier
5. Demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland
6. German reparations of 32 billion (almost 400 billion today)
7. A ban on an alliance between Germany and Austria
8. An acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war
9. Trial of the former Kaiser and other war leaders
10. Limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 men with no conscription, no tanks, no
heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships. The limitation of
the German Navy to vessels under 100,000 tons, with no submarines
4. Treaty of Versailles and Germany
League of Territorial Military War Guilt
Nations Losses Restrictions
• Germany and • Alsace-Lorraine • Limited the size of • All guilt placed on
Austria excluded returned to FRA Germany’s military Germany
• Germany • Can’t import •Forced to pay
surrendered colonies weapons reparations
• No airplanes,
submarines, tanks,
Notes de l'éditeur
Reparations—This amount would have taken until 1984 for Germany to pay off.