A Post war 1 Wants 1 Great Britain A No desire to crush Germany a Wanted a balanced Europe so it can thrive in trade b Lloyd George didn t really want to punish Germany 2 France A Clemenceau a Wanted a Germany that was no longer dangerous i ii Break Germany into pieces Wilson and George would not have allowed it 3 Settlements A Germany with limitations Limit armed forces a b Limit manufacturing of weapons i Later began to cheat B Germany still interested in themselves a Feared French revenge b People in the West sometimes sympathized with Germany 4 Italy A Orlando and Italy were disappointed a Was among the winners but the cost was high b Other 3 leaders didn t say that they promised anything because they weren t in power previously 5 US A Wilson was most disappointed a Expected the most i ii i Did everything to remake the world Couldn t remake man Still animosity between nations b Hoped that new nations would be better c Greatest disappointment was that America turned against him Republicans took over congress B Wilson s influence declined in the state and international community 2 Treaties 1 None of the treaties did their job A Economic dislocation of Europe a To make nations behave you need to spend a lot b US essentially bank rolled the rebuilding of Germany i Instead of shipping supplies we shipped a lot of money B Treaty of Versailles a Made by the Big 4 b Reparations i ii Look what you did and it s going to cost you French and Belgium were still pissed at Germany for invading Germany argued that these aren t reparations and instead punishment Still a large nation Argued that they were victims of revenge when the allies promised peace C Article 231 and what was wrong about the treaty of Versailles a Said that Germany caused the war and led their friends into war b Next section was about reparations i We established guilt and here s the punishment c No total figure given for reparation You have to know the cost Germans still signed it because they had no choice i ii B Russian Revolution 1 Lenin 1 Marxist s greatest interpreter A Highly educated a Natural leader and egotistical b Left with the Marxist movement after Marx died B Was not supposed to happen a Marx envisioned a revolution based in the industrial proletariat Didn t happen that way Instead it happened in Russia because it could It would start somewhere and spread all across the world 2 State of Russia A Poverty a Czar was no qualified to be Czar Resisted change Assumed command of the army in 1915 B Dropped out of the war a Took out all of the troops It looked like Germany would win b Treaty of Brest Litvak Conceded certain amount of land to Germany by Trotsky Didn t think it was important C Creation of secret police a Whole new form of government b Almost nobody recognized Russia as a legitimate state i ii iii i ii i i
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