Fill in the Blanks Fill in the Blanks: Treaty of VersaillesOnline version Fill in the missing words from the Treaty of Versailles text. Test your knowledge of history and diplomacy! by Lyn Abdul Hameed 1 At the opening of the Paris Peace Conference , President Poincaré said : ? We are here to stop it happening again ? . This was the most important thing for . He wanted to make the world safe for democracy by making a fair and permanent . His Points laid out what he wanted ? including ( so there would be less weapons in the world ) , a ( where countries could talk out their problems ) and - ( so people could seek their own governments and states ) . Because the Big Three over so much about the treaty , it was unlikely any of them would get everything they wanted . However , each of their countries gained from what was agreed . 2 Clemenceau ( nickname : the ) wanted a treaty to the Germans . He wanted to weaken Germany , so France would never be again , by setting high enough to destroy Germany ? s economy , and by up Germany so that the was an independent country ( and a barrier between and ) . 3 Lloyd George , too , said he wanted to ? make pay ? ? but only because he knew that was what people wanted to hear . He wanted ? justice ? , but he did not want the kind of ? hard justice ? sought by ( which he thought would cause another in 25 years time ) . Instead , he tried to get a ? halfway point ? ? a compromise between and . Like most delegates , Lloyd George wanted to use the Treaty of Versailles to get advantages for his own country . In particular , he wanted to get going again ( this was why he did not want Germany destroyed economically ) . 4 There were many important reasons why was satisfied with the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference . France was protected by German disarmament and the of the Rhineland . Germany had to pay to France . They had to accept the for the war . 5 President was pleased that his idea for a League of Nations was written into the peace treaties . He was glad the treaties forced the defeated countries to disarm and that Germany did not lose the or have to pay unreasonably high . He was also very happy about the creation of the self - determined states of , and . However , there was no self - determination for the people of Germany and Austria , who could not unite , or for the Germans living in Sudetenland . , and Japan controlled many of Germany's former colonies , even though these were supposed to be run by the League of Nations . Wilson's idea for the freedom of the seas was abandoned as Britain now had . However , the worst disappointment of the peace settlement for Wilson was that refused to accept it . was entering a period of isolationism and withdrew from world affairs .
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