HIST 1115 Lecture Notes - David Lloyd George, List Of Industrial Regions
Post War Destruction
Germany needs to get to a Nation state so they can get back into normal stuff
People are fearing communist revolution
They need to get back to normal and back to work
Wilson has inspired people that things will get better,
The Americans wanted the Europeans to stay on their side of the world
Lloyd George and Clemanceau are not happy with the Americans, say they’ll let
the Americans continue fighting because they don’t love Wilson’s points
Wilson is saying that the only leaders allowed to come negotiate has to be
democratic leader elected by their people
Wilson is saying the only democratic diplomacy is the only way out
Paris Peace Conference
1919
they are tearing apart the map of Europe
nothing like this scale of devastation has ever happened before
Lloyd Gerorce, Wilson, Clemanceau, Orlando
The Germans are kept “in the dark” when the terms were being decided
The democratically elected gov’t had to accept these embarrassing terms
The Autocracy gets let off bascalyl
The peoepl who are making the decisions want it to be clear that Germany was
the cause of the war and that they must repay
The British and French are very severe and want Germany to pay for what they
did
France’s Northern Industrial region is completely ruined
oClemanceau wants to make sure Germany can NEVER do this again
oHe wants to take a chunk of German territory
oSaar Valey (coal rich)
oThey were not allowed to TAKE this land but they could take the COAL
from this
oFrance wants to take Germany apart
oFrance wanted:
Britain and US promise that they would have a permanent military
commitment for France
The Rhineland would be permanently de-militarized and the
Germans would not be allowed to have any troops in it
Germany would be permanently demilitarized, only 100,000
professional soldiers (nom conscription)
No arms manufacturing, other than what they needed to protect the
state
They wanted to give Danzig to the Polish
Czechoslovakia is made stronger by giving it a mountain range, called the
Sudetenland (belonged to Austria before)
There were new nations made as a quarantine zone for France
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Document Summary
Germany needs to get to a nation state so they can get back into normal stuff. They need to get back to normal and back to work. Wilson has inspired people that things will get better, The americans wanted the europeans to stay on their side of the world. Lloyd george and clemanceau are not happy with the americans, say they"ll let the americans continue fighting because they don"t love wilson"s points. Wilson is saying that the only leaders allowed to come negotiate has to be democratic leader elected by their people. Wilson is saying the only democratic diplomacy is the only way out. 1919 they are tearing apart the map of europe. Nothing like this scale of devastation has ever happened before. The germans are kept in the dark when the terms were being decided. The democratically elected gov"t had to accept these embarrassing terms.
