When the leaders of the major allied powers from the US, Britain , and France, met at Versailles they wanted to make sure that another catastrophic war like the one that had just happened wouldn’t happen again. They wanted WWI to be the war to end all wars. They also wanted this ending to the war to be one of peace to go with this new found idea to end all wars, but some of the leaders there wanted to punish Germany for its involvement in starting the war.
The allies wanted to insure that there would be no more world wars like the one that had just occurred. They thought that only large nations with powerful armies posed a threat to this ne