[Versailles: The Tragedy of Triumph]
  
Before class 
  
      * Review Palmer, 687-696 
  
      * Key terms
  
	Treaty of Versailles 
	Fourteen Points 
	demilitarization of the Rhineland 
	Sudeten Germans 
	mandates 
	reparations 
	war guilt clause 
	League of Nations 
  
      * Key questions  


1. Describe the personality and outlook of the Big Four statesmen at the Paris peace 
conference. 

2. Why did Wilson and Lloyd George object to the French attitudes and proposals with 
respect to Germany? 

3. Summarize and discuss the major agreements reached at the Paris peace conference 
concerning (a) territorial changes, (b) disposition of the German colonies, (c) restrictions 
on German naval and military power and (d) reparations. 

4. Why was the "war guilt" clause written into the treaty? 

5. "The most general principle of the Paris settlements was to recognize the right of national 
self-determination, at least in Europe."  Comment. 


  
      * Key concept: treaty of Versailles as source of future trouble 

[Versailles]

In class 
  
      * Outline 
  
	1. three problems 
	2. provisions of treaty 
	3. legacies 
  
      * Key terms
  
	Paris Peace Conference
	Treaty of Versailles	
	Fourteen Points			
	League of Nations
	Georges Clemenceau
	David Lloyd George		
	Vittorio Orlando 
	Woodrow Wilson
	reparations
	Article 231

      * Key quotation


We were journeying to Paris not merely to liquidate the war but to found a new order in Europe.  
We were preparing not peace only, but eternal peace.  There was about us the halo of some 
divine mission.  For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.

				Harold Nicolson, British delegate to Paris Peace Conference