Class Work 3; term 4

Review Aims of Major Powers at Paris Peace Conferences

Aims of Japan included control of German ports in China.

Italy demanded control of the Fiume Territory, a Port City.

Maintaining the balance of power was the aim of the British; they intervened only when this was threatened.

Some aims of the French were to get compensation for all of their suffering in the war.

Only Germany was to blame for the war, according to the Allied powers.

Fourteen Points were created by Woodrow Wilson as a way of expressing America's goals.

Vague guarantees were offered by the League of Nations.

Italy aims to achieve the territorial gains that had been promised in the Treaty of London.

China was a place where Japan had an opportunity to increase its power.

The British policy pointed towards a peace of reconciliation, rather than revenge.

One of the way which the French tried to weaken Germany involved territorial reduction and extensive disarmament.

Reparations were paid by Germany.

Support from the UK was not needed for France.