Match the leaders to their goals at the Paris Peace Conference.
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The Paris Peace Conference, which began in 1919, was also known as the Versailles Peace Conference and it led to the famous Treaty of Versailles. This was a meeting between the Allied powers who had recently defeated Germany and her allies in World War I and the countries that had formed the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary and others) and it established the requirements for peace negotations and the end of the war. Led by the Big Four, France, Italy, Britain and the U.S, the Paris Peace Conference became the setting for not just the famous Fourteen Points of U.S President Woodrow Wilson, but also the setting for a battle of wills and desires between the deafeating powers. In the end, the result was the humiliation of Germany and the imposition of heavy penalties on this country, as well as the establishment of the League of Nations, the separation of colonies and redistribution of territories from the Central Powers in favor of the winning nations and the settling of reparations on the part mostly of Germany. As said before, each of the Big Four leaders arrived at these peace negotiations with their own requisites, and in order, these were: President Woodrow Wilson wanted lasting peace and justice. Prime Minister Orlando of Italy desired the money to rebuild his country, as his country found itself with a deficit of 12.000.000.000 lire and more than 700.000 soldiers lost. Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain wished for the territories (dominions) that had been promised earlier to his country and finally, Prime Minister Clemenceau of France wished for punishment for Germany
Answer: Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain: money to rebuild his country
Prime Minister Clemenceau of France: punishment for Germany
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States: lasting and just peace