WORLD WAR IArmistice, the Paris Peace Conference & the Treaty of Versailles

…ON THE WAY TO ARMISTICEWoodrow Wilson’s “FOURTEEN POINTS”

JAN. 8, 1918 Woodrow Wilson to the U.S. Congress – proposed a 14-POINT PROGRAM FOR WORLD PEACE…

…later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.

FREE TRADE, OPEN AGREEMENTS, DEMOCRACY & SELF DETERMINATION

(AND A DIPLOMATIC END TO THE WAR!)

…ON THE WAY TO ARMISTICEWoodrow Wilson’s “FOURTEEN POINTS”

ALLIED ARMISTICE WITH GERMANYGermany Falls Apart

By September 1918, situation for Germany is “HOPELESS” – sets ARMISTICE in motion…

HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE …DESERTION, CIVILIAN STRIKES, MUTINY, GERMAN REVOLUTION

ALLIED ARMISTICE WITH GERMANYArmistice of Compiègne

RUSSIA (December 1917) BULGARIA (September 1918) OTTOMANS (October 1918) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (November 1918)

GERMANY – NOV. 11, 1918 ‘Armistice Day’ – ‘Veteran’s Day’

ARMISTICE: “A TERMINATION OF HOSTILITIES AS A PRELUDE TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS”

PARIS PEACE CONFERENCENegotiations to End the War

“Meeting of the Allied victors at the end of WWI to set the peace terms for the Central Powers following the armistices of 1918.”

Diplomats from more than 32 countries!

BIG FOUR

MAJOR DECISIONS @ “PPC” Creation of the LEAGUE OF NATIONS Five PEACE TREATIES with Central Powers Awarding of GERMAN & OTTOMAN COLONIES to Great Britain and France REPARATIONS imposed on Germany Drawing of NEW NATIONAL BOUNDARIES (SELF-DETERMINATION)

TREATY OF VERSAILLESFormal Peace With Germany

ONE OF FIVE peace treaties at the “Paris Peace Conference” to end WWI…

“FORMALLY ENDED THE STATE OF WAR BETWEEN GERMANY AND THE ALLIED POWERS!” (June 28, 1919)

MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE “TOV” “WAR GUILT CLAUSE” German REPARATIONS for allied damages (132 billion marks) German DE-MILITARIZATION ALSACE & LORAIN returned to France (1871) Eastern Germany given to a NEW POLISH STATE

LEGACY OF WWINew Countries and Old Ones…

OLD EMPIRES COLLAPSE, NEW NATIONS EMERGE!