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• Others sent
supplies/money.
• 38 million casualties
• Treaty of Versailles
signed on June 28,
1919.
• Treaty of Versailles:
• Peace treaty that ended
WWI and assigned blame
and punishment for the war
to Germany.
Discussion Question
• Pretend you are the leader of Britain, France, or the USA
and have just won WWI. Millions of your young men have
been slain in battle, the French countryside has been
ravaged, and millions upon million of people have lost
their lives. Now it is your job to decide who is to blame
and what the consequences should be for those that lost
the war.
• Wants to set up
international
organization: The
League of Nations
What did France Want?
• Clemenceau : The Tiger
• Wants:
• Security for France
• Revenge
• Reparations
Article 231
• If you had to side with one countries goals for the end of
the war (Britain, France, USA) who would you have
chosen and why?
German’s Reaction to the Treaty
• German's think it is a “diktat”:
• A dictated peace.