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Summary Peacemaking
Summary of measures taken to ensure peace following the end of WW1 e.g. Treaty of Versailles etc. AQA GCSE History Conflict and Tension: the interwar years
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PeacemakingArmistice: Paris Peace Conference:
Ending of all fighting within 6hrs 1919-1920
Withdrawal of all German troops from France, No one invited from defeated countries
Belgium, Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine and
Rhineland 5 treaties dealing with Germany and allies
drawn up
Withdrawal of German troops on the Eastern
Front and East Africa at a later date Main decisions taken by Lloyd George,
Clemenceau and Wilson (Big Three)
Giving back all eastern territory gained by
Germany since 01/08/1914
Aims of the Big Three:
Renunciation of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Clemenceau:
Acceptance of reparations
Punish and weaken Germany
Immediate release of PoWs
Strengthen France
Have lost territory returned to France
Wilson: Lloyd George:
Create a League of Nations Satisfy British public/voters
Base the Treaty on his 14 Points (disarmament, self- Leave Germany strong enough to
determination etc) trade with
Ensure Germany was not entirely destroyed Protect British power (e.g. naval
supremacy)
Did not approve of the war guilt clause
Treaty of Versailles (1919):
Military
Army limited to 100 000 men
Navy limited to 6 pre-Dreadnought battleships, 6 cruiser, 12 destroyers, 12 torpedo boats
Submarines banned
Air-force banned
Conscription banned
Armoured vehicles forbidden
Rhineland to be demilitarised
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