The Big Three's aims
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- The Big Three's aims
- Georges Clemenceau, France
- Alsace and Lorraine returned to France.
- Germany must lose land on the border with France.
- In order to make the French people feel secure from future attack.
- Germany must pay for the suffering the French people had endured.
- Under great pressure to make the Germans pay; the French argued this payment should be in money and land.
- David Lloyd George, Britain
- Wanted Germany to be punished - but not too harshly.
- Did not want Germany to seek revenge in the future.
- Ran against the views of most Brits,
- Protect British naval interests.
- Reduce German navy and extend the Britsih empire.
- Dislked Wilson's idea of free access for all countries to the seas.
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- Wanted both Britain and Germany to be able to start trading again.
- Wanted Germany to be punished - but not too harshly.
- Woodrow Wilson, USA
- Core beliefs
- Achieve world peace in the future, nations would have to cooperate.
- Self determination- this idea was the guiding principle of his 14 Points.
- Germany should be punished but not too harshly.
- Germans would become resentful and want revenge
- Wanted all countries to join a League of Nations.
- Germany should lose territory
- Germany should not be made to pay war reparations.
- Core beliefs
- Georges Clemenceau, France
- Fourteen Points
- No secret treaties
- Free access to the seas
- Free trade between countries
- Diarmament
- Slef-determination
- League of Nations
- Poland to become an idependant state.
- Colonies to have a say in their own future
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