THE BIG THREE: THEIR MOTIVES AND THE FOURTEEN POINTS PROGRAM THE FOURTEEN POINTS PROGRAM • THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM WAS A LIST MADE BY U.S PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON IN AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE LASTING PEACE AFTER WW1 • THIS PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED BY WILSON WOODROW, WITH THE AID OF 150 POLITICAL SCIENTISTS, GEOGRAPHERS AND ETHNOGRAPHERS • THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM WAS CREATE IN AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE PEACE IN EUROPE • THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM LED TO THE CREATION OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS • HOWEVER, THEY WERE NOT FULLY IMPLEMENTED BECAUSE THE ALLIES WANTED LARGER BENEFITS FOR THEMSELVES AND LARGER PUNISHMENTS FOR GERMANY THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM • THE 14 POINTS THAT COMPRISED THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM WERE: 1. OPEN DIPLOMACY WITHOUT SECRET TREATIES 2. ECONOMIC FREE TRADE ON THE SEAS DURING WAR AND PEACE 3. EQUAL TRADE CONDITIONS 4. DECREASE ARMAMENTS AMONG ALL NATIONS 14 POINTS CONTINUED: 5. ADJUST COLONIAL AIMS 6. EVACUATION OF ALL CENTRAL POWERS FROM RUSSIAN AND ALLOW IT TO DEFINE ITS OWN INDEPENDENCE 7. BELGIUM TO BE EVACUATED AND RESTORED 8. RETURN OF ALSACE-LORRAINE REGION AND ALL FRENCH TERRITORIES 9. READJUST ITALIAN BORDERS 14 POINTS CONTINUED 10. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY TO BE PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF DETERMINATION 11. REDRAW THE BORDERS OF THE BALKAN REGION CREATING ROMANIA, SERBIA, AND MONTENEGRO 12. CREATION OF A TURKISH FREE STATE WITH GUARANTEED FREE TRADE IN THE DARDANELLES 13. CREATION OF AN INDEPENDENT POLISH STATE 14. CREATION OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS GEORGES CLEMENCEAU • GEORGES CLEMENCEAU WAS ONE OF THE BIG THREE • HE WAS THE FRENCH PRIME MINISTER DURING AND AFTER WW1 • HE WAS KNOWN AS THE TIGER BECAUSE OF HIS FEROCIOUSLY BRILLIANT POLITICAL WRITING • HIS CHIEF GOAL DURING THE CREATION OF THE TREATY VERSAILLES WAS TO WEAKEN GERMANY • HE INSISTED THAT GERMANY SHOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO ATTACK AND FRANCE AGAIN AND WANTED TO PUNISH GERMANY FOR ATTACKING THEM GEORGES CLEMENCEAU CONTINUED • CLEMENCEAU THOUGHT WOODROW WILSON WAS TOO IDEALIST AND WAS BEING TOO SOFT ON GERMANY • CLEMENCEAU WAS SKEPTIC, ANNOYED AND FRUSTRATED WITH THE 14 POINTS • HE TRIED TO WEAKEN THEM SO THAT GERMANY COULD BE PUNISHED MORE SEVERELY DAVID LLOYD GEORGE • GEORGE WAS A MINISTER OF MUNITIONS IN 1915 • HE WAS THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER FROM 1916 TO 1922 • GEORGE HELD A MEDIATING POSITION BETWEEN THE FURIOUS AND PUNITIVE GEORGES CLEMENCEAU AND THE LENIENT WILSON WOODROW • GEORGE AIMED FOR A TREATY THAT WAS FAIR FOR ALL SIDES AND WOULD NOT DESTABILIZE GERMANY’S ECONOMY WILSON WOODROW • WILSON WOODROW WAS THE U.S PRESIDENT DURING AND AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR • HE WAS CONSIDERED THE ARCHITECT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS • HE DEVELOPED THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM • WILSON WOODROW HAD A LENIENT AND FORGIVING APPROACH ON THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES • WOODROW SAW THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS THAT HE DREW UP IN THE 14 POINTS PROGRAM AS A WAY TO MITIGATE ANY HARSH TERMS IN THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES • WILSON’S VISION FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE UNITED NATIONS
