Georges Clemenceau

(noun)

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841–1929) was a French journalist, physician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 to 1920.

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  • Paris Peace Conference
  • Treaty of Versailles

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.
  • France at the End of the Interwar Period

    • Peace terms were imposed by the Big Four, meeting in Paris in 1919: David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States.
    • Clemenceau demanded the harshest terms and won most of them in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
  • 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.
  • Courtesy

    • .~ Georges Clemenceau
  • 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.
  • Notes

    • Books: Gagnon, George W. & Collay, Michelle (2001).
  • The Gallup Organization

    • Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
    • Founded by George Gallup , Gallup, Inc. is primarily a research-based, performance-management consulting company.
    • Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
    • George Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, the precursor of The Gallup Organization, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935.
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