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The terms of peace in the Treaty reflected the strong anti-German (and anti-Austrian) antagonisms which were aroused in the Western democracies by the catastrophic and traumatic effects of the First World War as well as by the chaos, disorder and revolutions in Central Europe which followed in its wake. The principal leaders of the victorious powers at the Paris Peace Conference, Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain (LG), Premier Georges Clemenceau of France and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, shared the belief of their electorates that Germany and its allies had been solely responsible for the outbreak of the war and should be held accountable for its consequences. More, however, than a simple desire for revenge motivated their respective approaches to their defeated enemies, which included sometimes conflicting postwar objectives and, in the case of Great Britain and France, the need to compensate for, and to mask, their postwar weakness. The United States was least motivated by a spirit of vindictiveness but achieved only limited success in moderating the harshness of the peace terms due to a steady erosion of its bargaining power after the Armistice and the unrealistic dip

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bring the top leaders of Imperial Germany to account before an international tribunal, achieve the complete demilitarization of Germany, extend French control over German lands bordering France, the Rhineland and the Saar coal basin, recover Alsace-Lorraine and create Poland and other independent states on Germany's eastern and southern borders. The French objective was "to create . . . a zone of protection against the day when the German menace would loom menacingly again in the east" (Nicholson 88). French policy stemmed not so much from a desire for vengeance, but rather from a profound sense of insecurity and weakness vis-a-vis Germany. As Trachtenberg said: forty million Frenchmen faced sixty million Germans, and the demographic gap was . . . widening. [This] disparity . . . , taken together with Germany's unquestioned military genius and capacity for organization, meant that in the natural course of things Germany would overwhelm France (99). Britain shared French fears of a revival of Prussian militarism. It had largely been bankrupted by the cost of waging a world war which forced it to sink deeply into debt to the United States. Britain, however, was more sensitive than was France over the dangers that too harsh a pea
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Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page)