Treaty of Versailles

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+- 1919 settlement with Germany at the end of WWI
 
+- began with Wilson’s 14 points: permanent peace, “self-determination of all peoples,” and League of Nations
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+- however, propaganda had portrayed Germany as responsible for the war and Germany was made to pay (esp. by Britain and France)
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+- disarmed, could not build air force, navy reduced
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+- war-guilt provision: Germany made to pay massive reparations