Woodrow Wilson Fights for Peace

1. What was Wilson's 14th Point?
The League Of Nations (a precursor to the United Nations).

2. What terms of the treaty specifically affected Germany?
Well the Treaty in general was directed at Germany. It did not have any positive effects on Germany. It forced the germans to give back land to surrounding (ally) nations. This was part of Wilson's 14 Points that different ethnic groups had a right to form their on country or to join an existing country. The treaty also forced germany to pay millions of dollars in reparations to the ally nations. In short, Germany took sole blame for the war, the ally powers were unwilling to be forgiving. Especially Georges Clemenceau ("The Tiger") who believed that the treaty was too lenient with germany and that it should be shown little mercy.

3. What were the weaknesses of the treaty?
It was to hard on Germany. It asked way too much from its battered economy. It also angered the germans, nearly all of whom believed that the treaty was very unfair.

4. Why did Henry Cabot Lodge object to the treaty?
Well Lodge was a republican and despised Wilson. He also believed that the League of Nations would be the downfall of america, that by involving america in european problems would only be bad for america.

5. How did Wilson help bring about the Senate's rejection of the treaty?
Wilson didn't do a very good job of pleasing the republicans when it came to the Treaty of Versailles and therefore he lost a lot of vote for it.

6. What circumstances at this time would eventually lead many Germans to support Adolf Hitler?
After the war hatred only grew between european nations. Particularly between the ally powers and Germany. Germany soon got sick of taking the blame for the war and paying millions of dollars to countries that they so deeply hated. Eventually Hitler would use the germans hatred and want for revenge to gain power. Not to long after the Great War the great depression came and germany plunged even deeper into debt. Adolf Hilter promised the people of Germany that he would get them out of their great debt and lead them once again as a powerful european nation.

7. Who is Georges Clemenceau?
Georges Clemenceau (often referred to as "the Tiger" was a french Premier who saw Woodrow Wilson as to much of an idealst.
Clemeceau also saw the Treaty of Versailles as being to soft on Germany. Being french his country had suffered much damage at the hands of the germans and he desperately wanted retribution for germany.

8. Who is David Lloyd George?
George was british Prime Minister during the peace conferences in Paris.

9. Describe the participation of Russia at the peace conference.
Russia changed its borders and boundary to accommodate the treaty of versailles and the 14 points.