Paris 1919 brought a political movement that would alter history in ways its creators never anticipated. The Treaty of Versailles, drawn up at the Paris Peace Conference by the four major Allied countries, officially ended World War I and set out the terms of the settlement. Representatives from the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy made up the Big Four: Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Vittorio Orlando respectively. Although Orlando eventually backed out because he wasn't getting everything he wanted (Meyer 610). These four men each had their own ideas about what the treaty would entail and what the implications would be for the war. Britain had already accomplished what it set out to do by the end of the war, so Prime Minister Lloyd George signed the treaty with "few major aspirations beyond protecting the achievements of the British Empire” and “the restoration of some sort of balance of power on the continent”. (610). But he also wanted to satisfy “the popular demand for punishment of Germany” (610). Clemenceau's ideas were very different. Germany had more influence over France than Britain at the time, with a higher German population. Clemenceau's vision of post-war Germany, like the vision of the French people, was that of "a Germany either dismantled or so permanently handicapped that it was incapable of posing a threat" (611 ). Wilson began with a fanciful view of how the Peace Conference would unfold. He believed it was his responsibility, and therefore America's, to "play its full part in achieving that which [the Allied soldiers] gave their blood to obtain" (Wilson quoted in MacMillan 3 ). He wanted to not only end the war, but also prevent all future wars, primarily with the creation of the League of Nations (Meyer 611). Also in the middle of the newspaper......Wing Day, Drew Middleton of the New York Times reported that an "American plane, which four years ago brought death to the city, will bring life in the form of food and medicine to the populations of the Western sectors, whose food supplies were cut off by the Russians” (Middleton, cited in Behrman 204). America also managed to rebuild other parts of Europe. Roubaix, France, was home to one of the largest textile factories in the world that the Marshall Plan, a supplier of wood, was able to keep in operation (Mee 251). 70% of French ports destroyed during the war were restored in two years (252). Shipments of carbon black arrived in Birmingham, England, and "Europe's largest tire factory resumed production" and 10,000 workers returned to their jobs (246). Europe was up and running again, becoming more and more economically prosperous, thanks to the Marshall Plan..