The Importance Of The Paris Peace Conference

The ending of World War 1 was supposed to be the beginning of peace. The allied forces proved to be victorious over the Central powers. This brought with it the 1919 Paris peace conference that was held in Versailles, France. This was done after the Armistice of November 11, 1918. The peace conference was mostly influenced by the Big Four. The Big Four consisted of three important leaders that were heavily involved in the war. These leaders were American President, Woodrow Wilson, the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, and the French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau. The fourth member, Italy Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, was less important because Italy did not play a significant role in the war. Each leader had their interest in the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference. This created conflict between the leaders. Although, …show more content…
Excluding Germany from this made it seem as though the decision was made to the allied power benefit. Germany still firmly believing that they did not admit defeat, because they only signed an Armistice, did not help the situation. Then the push for the League of Nations came along. To President Woodrow Wilson the League of Nations was very important because he believed that it would prevent future wars from occurring. The League of Nations was later to be seen as a failure as well as the Treaty of Versailles. It was later that the United States signed a separate peace treaty with Germany. This Treaty mimicked the language and privileges of the Treaty of Versailles all except the mentioning of the League of Nations. Which, the United States never formally joined. It is very apparent that the main important powers each wanted a solution to fit their own needs. As a result of greed the Paris peace conference was fated to end with a short-term peace which did not hold for