Georges Clemenceau

Examples of Georges Clemenceau in the following topics:

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Wilson’s illness enabled the right-wing French Chancellor Georges Clemenceau to lead the other two members of the “Big Four” powers – British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando – in changing many aspects of Wilson's plan.
  • Georges Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) served as the Prime Minister of France and was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • From left to right, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and U.S.

• The Paris Peace Conference

  • Following the Allied victory, President Woodrow Wilson met with his counterparts, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain and Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
  • Upon his arrival at the conference, Wilson worked to influence the direction that the French delegation led by Clemenceau and the British under Lloyd George took toward Germany and its fallen allies, as well as the former Ottoman lands in the Middle East.
  • Allied leaders during the Paris Peace Conference including, from left, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and U.S.

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F.
  • In March 1919, French Premier Georges Clemenceau called for a cordon sanitaire, or ring of non-communist states, to isolate the Soviet Union.
  • State Department asked George F.
  • Clark Clifford and George Elsey produced a report elaborating on the Long Telegram and proposing concrete policy recommendations based on its analysis.
  • George Kennan's foreign policy analysis is examined and the pillars of containment are discussed.

• Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

  • From left to right, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain, Premier Vittorio Orlando of Italy, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and U.S.

• The Election of 1988

  • The 1988 United States presidential election was defined by the victory of Republican George H.W.
  • Reagan's Vice President George H.
  • The result was a third consecutive Republican landslide victory and George H.
  • Bush's victory percentage – 53.4% — has not yet been surpassed in any subsequent presidential election, and he was the last candidate to get a majority of the popular vote until his son George W.
  • Official portrait of George H.

• Pursuing Both War and Peace

  • In 1775, the colonies proposed the Olive Branch Petition to reconcile with Britain and avert war, but King George III denied the petition.
  • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
  • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • King George indicated that he intended to deal with the crisis with armed force.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

• The George W. Bush Administration

  • George W.
  • The presidency of George W.
  • The oldest son of former president George H.
  • Bush, George W.
  • President George W.

• The American Military Forces

  • The Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army in June 1775 and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief.
  • On June 15, 1775, George Washington was elected as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
  • George Washington served as commander-in-chief for the duration of the Revolutionary War without compensation.

• The Social Problem

  • Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth was written by Henry George in 1879 and is a treatise on the cyclical nature of an industrial economy and its remedies.
  • In Progress and Poverty, George examines various proposed strategies to prevent business depressions, unemployment, and poverty, but finds them unsatisfactory.
  • George argued that a land value tax would give landowners an incentive to use the land in a productive way, thereby employing labor and creating wealth, or to sell the land to those who could and would themselves use the land in a productive way.
  • Henry George proposed a "single tax" that would be leveled on the rich and poor alike, with the excess money collected used to equalize wealth and level out society.
  • The works of authors such as George and Bellamy became popular, and soon clubs were created across America to discuss their ideas, although these organizations rarely made any real social change.

• The Recession

  • Under George H.
  • While the election campaign of George H.