Compare And Contrast The Paris Peace Conference And The Treaty Of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles “The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris”(Milestones:1914-1920). The Big Four, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Italy were representatives in this peace conference. Three major points about the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles were that the U.S. was not an allied power; they were an associated power, absense from other nations caused the treaty to weaken, and the U.S. government signed the treaty with Germany. To begin, the U.S. was not an allied power; it was an axis power. The president of the U.S. at this time, Woodrow Wilson, strongly didn’t believe in the arrangement of the Allied powers which often lead to disputes between The Big Four. Even though the U.S. was an associated power, this nation fought with the allied powers against the axis
Secondly, at the Paris Peace Conference, many of the nation's didn’t attend. Because of this, the Treaty of Versailles weakened. “Russia had fought as one of the Allies until December 1917, when its new Bolshevik Government withdrew from the war. The Bolshevik decision to repudiate Russia’s outstanding financial debts to the Allies and to publish the texts of secret agreements between the Allies concerning the postwar period angered the Allies”(Milestones:1914-1920). To clarify, though Russia was part of the Allies in the beginning, this nation angered the Allies when the Bolshevik removed themselves from the war. Finally, the U.S. signed a treaty with Germany. “This separate peace treaty with Germany stipulated that the United States would enjoy all “rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations or advantages” conferred to it by the Treaty of Versailles, but left out any mention of the League of Nations,