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History GCSE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Basics
        
        Prime Minister of France
        
        Ferocious man
        
        Nicknamed 'The Tiger'
        
        De Facto leader of the Big Three
      - Demands
        
        Harsh treaty on Germany
        
        Make sure France was never invaded by Germany again
    - - Basics
        
        President of the USA
        
        Idealist
      - Demands
        
        To make sure world piece could be achieved, and this'd be the 'war to end all wars'
        
        A lenient treaty, as the USA and Germany traded strongly and this'd be a blow to the Americans, with not many hating the Germans
    - - Basics
        
        Prime Minister of the UK
        
        Famously quoted that the Treaty was like sitting between an argument with 'Napoleon and Jesus'
      - Motives
        
        Moderately harsh treaty
        
        He said that he would squeeze Germany until the 'pips squeaked', but knew personally that this would not be good outside public approval for a couple of years
  - - - Successful
        
        The League of Nations, one of the '14 points' set by Wilson, was set up, with a large amount of countries joining
        
        All members of the Central Powers had to disarm
        
        The Rhineland was demilitarised, this wasn't one of his direct requests, but it was along his lines of peace
        
        Wilson also liked self determination, so was happy to see Austria-Hungary collapse and smaller independent nations were created
      - Unsuccessful
        
        Britain didn't scale down it's navy, and was probably never going to
        
        Britain and France expanded their colonial empires by taking German colonies, not making them independent
        
        The Treaty was rejected by Congress, leaving America exempt, and Wilson a broken man
    - - Successful
        
        The acquired Alsace-Lorraine, which they lost in 1871
        
        The majority or reparations went to France, as they were hit the hardest
        
        With a demilitarised Rhineland, France's security was enhanced
        
        The Treaty absolutely destroyed Germany in the military, and so if they stuck to the Treaty, would never start another war
        
        A treaty between the UK and USA said that if France was invaded, they'd both protect France
      - Unsuccessful
        
        France was still not 100% secure
        
        The Anglo-American Treaty was rejected by Congress, meaning it was pretty useless
    - - Successful
        
        Britain's empire grew. Parts of Ghana, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanganyika (Big part of modern Tanzania) went to them
        
        Britain's naval supremacy was boosted massively with Germany weakened and Wilson's plan rejected
      - Unsuccessful
        
        Nothing specific
  - - - The treaty wasn't taken to kindly, with hostile protests and rallies against the treaty
      - 4 features disliked by the Germans
        
        The Treaty was a 'Diktat', there were no negotiations, and if refused, the war would just continue
        
        Article 231 said that it was entirely the German's fault, and most of the German's didn't believe that at all
        
        The Treaty said that the sum of money was infinite, which the Germans again hated for the impracticality
        
        The restriction to 100,000 soldiers meant the Germans couldn't defend themselves against France and Poland
    - - Freikorps
        
        The Freikorps were a band of ex-soldiers who hated the Weimar politicians for being the reason they had to leave the military
        
        In March 1920, a group of them staged a coup on Berlin under leader Wolfgang Kapp
        
        The workers came out in support and went on strike, but it collapsed eventually