(A) Woodrow Wilson-President of the United States
(B) Lloyd George-Great Britain Prime Minister
(C) ** Clemenceau-French Prime Minister
(D) Adolf Hitler
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Prussian victory in that conflict had resulted in Germany’s unification and its seizure of Alsace and Lorraine provinces from France. In 1919, France and its prime minister, Georges Clemenceau, had not forgotten the humiliating loss, and intended to avenge it in the new peace agreement.
Concept note-2: -French President George Clemenceau wanted Germany to be severely punished. He wanted Germany to be weakened so they would not be able to pose any threat to France in the future. The two countries had a history of conflict and bordered each other.
Concept note-3: -Georges Clemenceau He wanted to make Germany pay for the damage done during the war. He also wanted to weaken Germany, so France would never be invaded again.
Concept note-4: –Clemenceau wanted to enact revenge on Germany for the damages of the war. He achieved this aim by making Germany take the blame for the start of the war and by forcing them to pay a high reparations bill.-However, many French people wanted Germany to be not just weakened but completely destroyed.
Concept note-5: -Clemenceau stood for reparations, a transfer of colonies, strict rules to prevent a rearming process, as well as the restitution of Alsace–Lorraine, which had been annexed to Germany in 1871. He achieved these goals through the Treaty of Versailles signed at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920).