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Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles
In 1914 a world war broke out. A war that would crush millions of lives, obliterate lifetimes of work and cause abhorrence that lasted for generations. On 1918, an armistice was signed. Although the peace agreement put an end to the actual fighting, it took six months of debate at the Paris Peace Conference to create a peace treaty. In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed and officially finished World War I between. The Peace Treaty of Versailles very penalizing against Germany and as an outcome opened the entry for a dictator and World War II.
The assignment of forming a peace agreement was now in the hands of the Allies. In December of 1918, the allies met in Versailles to begin on the peace agreement. Three countries out of the "big four" were greatly affected by the war causing them to have a vengeful intention whilst drawing up the treaty. The big four being the countries that drew up the treaty. The main countries and their individual representatives were: The Great Britain, David Lloyd George; France, George Clemenceau; United States, Woodrow Wilson. "In the beginning, it had seemed the mission of making peace would be trouble-free" (TARDIEU, 131). However, once the course started, the Allies found out that they had differing thoughts and motives surrounding the reparations and wording of the Treaty of Versailles. "It seemed the Allies had now set themselves up in another battle" (TARDIEU, 131).
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States (1913 --1921). As the battle continued, Wilson outlined his peace agenda, which was centered on fourteen major points. The fourteen points were straight and plain (Duffy, The fourteen points). The fourteen points gave inhabitants a hope of tranquility and lay the foundation for the armistice that Germany finally signed in November 1918. However, as the Allies began negotiations of the peace treaty, the European allies discarded Wilson's idealism and way...