Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the
worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
--W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1919)
1.
What happened on November 11, 1918?
2.
What did Karl Leibknecht and Rosa
Luxumburg attempt to do?
3.
What was organized in 1919 to conclude a
final settlement of the Great War?
4.
Who was Georges Clemenceau and what
did he want?
5.
What did President Wilson want to create
to prevent future wars?
6.
What was article 231 of the Treaty of
Versailles and who hated it?
7.
What were some of the new nation-states
that were created after WW I?
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7.
THE ARMISTICE/END OF WW I
ATTEMPTED COMMUNIST REV IN
GERMANY
THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE 1919
LEADER OF FRANCE –
SECURITY/REVENGE
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
THE WAR GUILT CLAUSE – GERMANY
LITHUANIA, LATVIA, ESTONIA, POLAND,
AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, YUGOSLAVIA
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II.
III.
IV.
Swept away by World War I
The Imperial German Empire
Imperial Russia
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Ottoman Empire
The Big 4
1.
Woodrow Wilson – USA
The 14 Points
Idealism
Democracy
National Self-determination
League of Nations
2.
David-Lloyd George – Britain
Make Germany pay for the costs of
the war
3.
Georges Clemenceau– France
Security/Protection against
Germany
Revenge
4.
Vittorio Orlando – Italy
Land grab
Not a major play at the conference
* Germany and Russia not invited
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THE WAR GUILT CLAUSE = Article 231 =
Germany is blamed for causing the war
 REPARATIONS
 Restrictions on Germany military power
 Demilitarization of the Rhine
 Alsace and Lorraine returned to France
“THE DICTAT” – Germans called it the forced
peace
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FINLAND
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
ESTONIA
POLAND
AUSTRIA
HUNGARY
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
YUGOSLAVIA
1.
2.
3.
Modern Turkey replaces the Ottoman Empire
KEMAL ATTATURK = the founder and first
leader of modern Turkey
Arabs are promised new states in the Middle
East
a. new boundaries drawn – artificial
b. new countries created
c. British and French Mandates
1.
2.
3.
4.
Too harsh – hated by the Germans/made them
angry and resentful
Too weak – no enforcement mechanism/they
don’t end up keeping Germany in check
Failure of the LEAGUE OF NATIONS
United States rejection of the Treaty of
Versailles = isolationism