USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who were the Big Three?
A
Orlando, Wilson, and Kaiser
B
Kaiser, Orlando, and Clemenceau
C
Clemenceau, George, and Wilson
D
Wilson, George, and Orlando
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1919, the Big Four met in Paris to negotiate the Treaty: Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.

Detailed explanation-2: -Delegates from 32 countries met for the Versailles Conference (January 1919), but most decisions were made by ‘the Big Three’ – Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, Woodrow Wilson, President of America, and David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Britain.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Big Three were the three main victorious countries after World War One. Sometimes they are referred to as the Allied Powers, sometimes the victors and sometimes the Big Three. They include Britain, France and the United States of America.

Detailed explanation-4: -The three most important men at the Versailles Conference-‘the Big Three’-were: Georges Clemenceau, the Prime Minister of France (2nd right). Woodrow Wilson, the President of America (far right). David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of Britain (far left, talking to Orlando, the Prime Minister of Italy).

Detailed explanation-5: -David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau, leaders of their countries in the First World War, are the supreme symbols of the Entente Cordiale in its most momentous phase. Both were imperishably portrayed in Keynes’s hostile vignettes during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Both were highly image-conscious.

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