The Treaty of Versailles

Meet and Debate

• Wilson’s Plan for Peace– Fourteen Points• Secret treaties, armies and navies, colonial claims,

changing borders, League of Nations• Self determination

• The Versailles Treaty– Signed on June 28, 1919– Punished Germany

Troubled Treaty• Separate Treaties – Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire– New nations

• Austria, Hungary, Czech, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Romania, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

– Faulty Treaty• US Public opposition• German guilt clause• Colonial anger• Allied anger; Japan and Italy• The League’s weakness