7.5

Unresolved Tensions After World War I

AP World History: Modern

The Paris Peace Conference (1919)

The Big Four and their goals

The Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Wilson's Fourteen Points vs. reality

The mandate system

Replacing empires with mandates

The Sykes-Picot Agreement and Middle Eastern consequences

The Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Caption: The "Big Four" at the Paris Peace Conference: David Lloyd George (Britain), Vittorio Orlando (Italy), Georges Clemenceau (France), and Woodrow Wilson (United States). Their competing visions shaped a flawed peace settlement.

The rise of authoritarian ideologies

Communism: The Soviet experiment

Fascism: A new political ideology

Nationalist movements in the colonial world

The failure of collective security

The League of Nations

Primary sources

Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points (January 1918)

Ho Chi Minh, petition to the Paris Peace Conference (1919)

Adolf Hitler on the Treaty of Versailles (1923)

Key figures

Key events summary

Vocabulary