Paris Peace Conference: Without Wilson

For whatever reason Wilson is not the President of the USA when WWI comes to a close. Who takes his place is up to you, for the real purpose is who does post-war Europe look without the hand of Woodrow Wilson?
 
Clarification: does the United States still go to war in 1917, only that with an alternate President, and the main change is supposed to be the lack of Wilson's ideas at Paris, or does the question infer an scenario in which the United States never entered the war at all?

Honestly it is up to you all. I find discussions are more interesting the more freedom we have with the POD. In my opinion it was almost given that the Germans would force the hand of the US, yet you may think otherwise.
 
What about TR winning the GOP nomination in 1912? Many of the votes to seat pro-TR delegations were close, and could conceivably be reversed. He wins the GOP nomination, picks Fairbanks as VP, defeats Wilson, wins in 1916. TR would would enter the war at the earliest possible opportunity, being along with Lodge the leading hawk. Perhaps like his cousin FDR, he needs to get public opinion on his side first, but they still enter in late 1915 or early 1916 depending. TR was a harsh critic of reparations and would be much more realistic about a postwar settlement than Wilson. So reparations are severely reduced after harsh words between TR, Lloyd George and Clemenceau, thus cutting down on German revanchism. Hell, maybe Nazism never becomes more than a fringe movement.
 
Charles Evans Hughes visits Gov. Hiram Johnson when they were in the same hotel, Johnson supports him whole-heartily. Hughes carries California, wins with the Electoral College at 267-264. Although not a mandate, unrestricted warfare inevitable brings America into the war.

As to the Paris Peace Conference, I feel like an international organization that is analogous to the League of Nations or the United Nations is inevitable. However, it probably won't be idealistic like Wilson.
 
Even without Wilson calling for self-determination, I bet we see Austria-Hungary broken up. The question, then, is into what? We might also see UK and France dispensing with the fiction of Mandates and outright annexing former Ottoman territory.
 
As we know, the Paris Peace Conference was an attempt to rebuild a world shattered by the Great War, a failed experiment in creating perpetual world peace. Each delegation had its own aims to achieve, and the American delegation led by President Elihu Root was no exception, though his goals were more limited. Besides accepting the American protectorates in Thrace, upper Anatolia, and Armenia, he wished to establish a forum of nations where diplomatic disputes could be solved before they broke out into open war. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the terms were quite harsh.

There are slight changes to the following documents:
Treaty of Versailles:
- Northern and Central Schleswig are to be ceded to Denmark
- Upper Silesia was to be ceded to Poland
- Warmia, Masuria, and Powisle are to be ceded to Poland
- The province of Saarland is to be ceded to France
- The Free City of Danzig is forbidden from merging with Germany
- The mandate system is not enacted (they are simply colonies)
- Germany MUST pay 226 billion Reichsmarks to the Allied nations for damages caused in the War.

Treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon:
- Italy is to receive the whole of Dalmatia, except the port city of Fiume, which will be ceded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

Treaty of Sevres
- Is followed to the letter, except the American territories are attached and accepted.
 

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There are slight changes to the following documents:
Treaty of Versailles:
- Northern and Central Schleswig are to be ceded to Denmark
- Upper Silesia was to be ceded to Poland
- Warmia, Masuria, and Powisle are to be ceded to Poland
- The province of Saarland is to be ceded to France
- The Free City of Danzig is forbidden from merging with Germany
- The mandate system is not enacted (they are simply colonies)
- Germany MUST pay 226 billion Reichsmarks to the Allied nations for damages caused in the War.

...so. When Germany comes-a-knockin in the 30s or 40s, to disembowel the Entente for this, how much worse of a war are we going to see?
 
As we know, the Paris Peace Conference was an attempt to rebuild a world shattered by the Great War, a failed experiment in creating perpetual world peace. Each delegation had its own aims to achieve, and the American delegation led by President Elihu Root was no exception, though his goals were more limited. Besides accepting the American protectorates in Thrace, upper Anatolia, and Armenia, he wished to establish a forum of nations where diplomatic disputes could be solved before they broke out into open war. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the terms were quite harsh.

There are slight changes to the following documents:
Treaty of Versailles:
- Northern and Central Schleswig are to be ceded to Denmark


The problem about this is that Denmark did not want Central Schleswig in OTL. I don't see how simply removing Wilson from the picture suddenly changes the minds of the Danish government at all. After all, taking Central Schleswig means for Denmark that they are a French puppet from now on.

- Upper Silesia was to be ceded to Poland
- Warmia, Masuria, and Powisle are to be ceded to Poland


Getting Warmia would gain Poland nothing except a ton of angry Germans, a crooked, long and indefensible border, and even more angry Germans. But this is 1919 Poland, so, if offered, they would even take Hesse or Thuringia.

- The province of Saarland is to be ceded to France


The problem here is that Britain did not want France to gain much north of the 1815 border. And the OTL solution was, in the end, even better for France since they could just exploit the Saar mines and did not have to bother about a population that hated their guts. Annexing the Saar means German nationalist delegates to Paris for the next 50 years (or until the next war).

- The Free City of Danzig is forbidden from merging with Germany
- The mandate system is not enacted (they are simply colonies)
- Germany MUST pay 226 billion Reichsmarks to the Allied nations for damages caused in the War.

Treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon:
- Italy is to receive the whole of Dalmatia, except the port city of Fiume, which will be ceded to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

These may be unproblematic, but the fate of Dalmatia wasn't only determined by self-determination issues, but by France wanting to prop up its Greater Serbia client.

Treaty of Sevres
- Is followed to the letter, except the American territories are attached and accepted.

And abandoned as soon as Isolationism kicks in. And the problem about the OTL Treaty of Sevres was not that the Entente was unwilling to enforce it, they were unable to do so. Once again, I don't see how simply removing Wilson from the picture will change anything about that.
 
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