1. Discuss the debate in the U.S. Senate over the ratification of the Versailles treaty. They spent almost six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. Of the many provisions in the treaty, one of the most important and controversial. Even requiring Germany to accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage. During the war the other members of the Central Powers signed treaties containing similar articles. Another important fact was there three most important politicians there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. David Lloyd George of Great Britain had two views on how Germany should be treated. Believed that the spread of communism posed a far greater threat to the world than a defeated Germany. Privately, he felt that Germany should be treated in such a way that left her as a barrier to resist the expected spread of communism. He did not want the people of Germany to become so disillusioned with their government that they turned to communism. Lloyd George did not want Germany treated with lenience but he knew that Germany would be the only country in central Europe that could stop the spread of communism if it burst over the frontiers of RussiaHis public image was simple. He was a politician and politicians needed the support of the public to succeed in elections. If he had come across as being soft on Germany, he would have been speedily voted out of office. The British public was after revenge and Lloyd George's public image reflected this mood. "Hang the Kaiser" and "Make Germany Pay" were two very common calls in the era immediately after the end of the war and Lloyd George, looking for public support, echoed these views Woodrow Wilson of America had been genuinely stunned by the savagery of the Great War. He could not understand how an advanced civilization could have reduced itself so that it had created so much devastation
2. What arguments were...