January 1919 - Woodrow Wilson (USA), Georges Clemenceau (France) and David Lloyd George (Britain) met in Paris.
Wilson was a real connaisseur of peace; he made his pacifistic views clear. He wanted all countries to join a League of Nations to resolves disputes peacefully.
In January 1918 he had published his Fourteen Points - a list of principles he believed every country should follow. His core beliefs;
- To achieve world peace in the future, nations would have to co-operate.
- A nation had the right to self-determination.
Wilson believed that Germany had been punished too harshly; if the peace treaty was too harsh Germans would be resentful and want revenge. He thought they should lose some territory but not made to pay the war damages.
The USA had not joined the war until late 1917 - it could be said that Americans took a more detached attitutde towards the Germans as they had not suffered too extensively.
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