Peacemaking Practice Questions

Study Source A below, then answer the question.

Source A: From an article in a British newspaper, published in June 1919 as the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were being made public.

Written for practice: not a real historical source.

The clauses that matter most are those dealing with the German army. An army of 100,000 men, raised from volunteers, with no tanks, no military aircraft and no submarines, is an army for keeping order at home and for nothing else. The great yards that built the High Seas Fleet will build no more dreadnoughts. With the Rhineland emptied of German troops, no general in Berlin can march his divisions into Belgium before breakfast. Germans will call these terms a humiliation. We call them the one solid guarantee that August 1914 will not come again.

Study Source A below, then answer the question.

Source A: From an editorial in a French newspaper, published in January 1919 for French readers as the Paris Peace Conference opened.

Written for practice: not a real historical source.

For four years the enemy held our northern provinces. Our mines are flooded, our factories stripped, our villages gone. Twice in fifty years German armies have crossed our frontier. Our Prime Minister is right to demand that this time Germany be made harmless. Her army must be cut down, her guns taken away, and the Rhine made a barrier behind which she cannot gather her strength. Let her pay, too, for every ruined house in Picardy. Fine words about a peace of justice are welcome, but only weakness on the German side will let France sleep.