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Big Four
Fourteen Points
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Essential Question
How was President Wilson’s plan for
peace different from other leaders?
What happened when the war ended?
Once the war ended on November 11, 1918 – the Allies
needed to set the terms for peace
President Wilson wanted
a “lasting peace”
Other leaders wanted to seek
revenge against Germany
Who were the Big Four?
Leaders of 27 allied nations met in Paris in 1919 to
create a peace agreement following the war
The Paris Peace Conference was under the
leadership of the Big Four
• Woodrow Wilson, United States
• David Lloyd George, Great Britain
• Georges Clemenceau, France
• Vittorio Orlando, Italy
Who was invited to the peace conference?
• Any nation who fought on the Allied side were welcome
to help set the terms of the peace treaty
• However, since Russia
dropped out of the war, it was
given no say in the creation of
the peace treaty
• The Allies forbid any defeated
nation, like Germany from
participating in the peace process
Was peace made quickly?
Without any defeated nations present, it should
have been easy to create a treaty, however…
Allied nations had different views on how
losing nations should be treated
A compromise needed to be reached
What was Wilson’s plan for peace?
President Wilson wanted a “lasting peace”
• He wanted losing nations to be treated fairly
• He wanted to avoid punishing losing nations
too harshly
• He did not want losing nations to have to
pay heavy reparations
His plan for peace became known as the
Fourteen Points
What were the Fourteen Points?
Fourteen different ideas made up Wilson’s plan, some of
the major ideas are:
• An end to secret alliances
• Limit of military buildups
• Right to self-rule to all people
• Freedom of the seas
• An international organization to
settle disputes peacefully
In the end, only one of his points would
become part of the peace treaty
Essential Question
How was President Wilson’s plan for
peace different from other leaders?
PLANS FOR PEACE
US President
Woodrow Wilson
European Leaders of
Gr. Britain and France