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Impact of WW1 and what did the peacemakers want? - Coggle Diagram
Impact of WW1 and what did the peacemakers want?
Britain (David Lloyd George)
Punish Germany
Wanted to punish Germany but was more cautious than France
Wanted a strong to trade with and a buffer against Communism
Wanted Germany's colonies
Wanted Naval supremacy
British Public
Wanted Germany to be punished harshly because war was expensive and almost 1 million British soldiers had died in the war
France (Georges Clemenceau)
Cripple Germany
Greatly reduce it's armed forces
Push the German border back to the Rhine
Return Alsace-Lorraine
Germany Must Pay
Weaken Germany so it could attack France again
Reparations for all of the damage caused by the war in France to Factories, Farmland and houses
Revenge for all of the lives lost
America (Woodrow Wilson)
Main Aims; the 14 points
Free Trade
Disarmament
Self Determination
Freedom of the seas
League of Nations
Just and lasting peace
Wanted fair peace so Germany would not seek revenge
Help Germany and Europe recover so the USA can trade with them
Impact of World War 1
Expensive
Britain, France and Germany were in huge debt
Human Cost
Millions of people had died on both sides
Damage
A lot of land in Belgium and France had been destroyed by the fighting