1919 WILSON'S pEACE PLAN

• Palace of Versailles
• Fourteen Points
• League of Nations
• US will not ratify- WHY?

THE ALLIES

YOU CANT SIT WITH US!

TREATY OF vERSAILLES

• Germany had to PAY reparations & take blame
• Created 9 new nations
• Carved up the Ottoman Em.
• Germ. Couldn't have an army

WAR GUILT CLAUSE

RUSSIA WAS EXCLUDED

• Dang Commies...
• Lost a lot of territory
• Countries didn't receive self determination
• Many thought the treaty to harsh

Failures of the Treaty

• Russia not included- Dang Commies...
• Russia also lost a lot of territory
• Other countries (colonies) didn't receive self determination
• Many thought the treaty too harsh

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

• Threatened isolationism
• US worried too much influence
• US never ratified the League

THE LEGACY

• Led to unstable political systems in Europe
• "We demand vengeance!" (Hitler)
• Sped up social change -1 million women in the workplace
• Suffrage for women in 1920
• US strengthened its army