PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Paris conference of 1919
World War I destroyed Europe for 4 years
Main Combatants
- Great Britain
- Germany
- France
- Austria-Hungary
- Russia
- Italy
- Ottoman Empire
DEath Toll
- Russia: 12 million
- Britain: 9 million
- France: 8 million
- Italy: 5 million
- United States: 6 million
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There are historians who believed that Clemenceau pushed for a treaty that would severely weaken Germany
The second opinion is that the Germans got off easy.
Signing the Treaty of Versailles
Germany Economic Collapse
Historians agree that the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles would haunt Europe.