Paris+Peace+Conference

With your assigned group, you will represent one of the participants in the Paris Peace conference. Your group must come up with proposals for the peace treaty to end the Great War. By the end of this period, your group must have a list of proposals for the Peace Treaty we will be negotiatiing in class during our next class period. Your proposals should be recorded here. Your proposals must answer the following questions:


 * 1) Who is to blame for the war and then all of the death and destruction that happened?
 * 2) What punishment should there be for those who are to blame? Or, should there be any punishment at all?
 * 3) What rules or institutions should be created to avoid future wars like the Great War?

Your proposals will need to be representative of the beliefs and interests of your country. In order to do that, you will need to research how your country was impacted by the war and what their leaders wanted to accomplish with the peace treaties that ended the war.You will begin by using the textbook. Look in the final section of Chapter 16, pp. 521-6. After that, you may use the interweb. Below are some suggested links for your research:

Links for everyone:
 * Paris Peace Conference at wikipedia. The overview is a good introduction.
 * Terms of the November 11, 1918 armistice that ended the fighting
 * Cost of the war: allied and neutral ships lost, financial cost of the war, deaths from gas attacks, warships lost, total casualties

Links for the US:
 * Woodrow Wilson's opening speech at Paris
 * Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
 * The American approach to peace
 * Total US casualties categorized

Links for the British:
 * The British approach to peace
 * Speech by British leader David Lloyd George arguing against the idea that Britain was to blame for the war
 * Lloyd George's opening speech at Paris

Links for France:
 * The French approach to peace
 * French property losses
 * Welcoming speech by President Poincare at the Paris Peace Conference
 * Opening speech by Prime Minister Clemenceau

Links for Italy:
 * The Italian approach to peace
 * Treaty of London, an agreement signed between Italy and the Allied Powers to get Italy to join the war on the Allied side. Essentially a promise to Italy about what they would get if they joined to Allies. These were Italy's goals for the war, and so they probably would have wanted these things at the peace negotiations.
 * Opening speech by Prime Minister Sonnino

Links for Germany:
 * How some Germans saw the end of the war
 * The German reaction to the eventual treaty