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.