Transcript End of WWI:

End of WWI:
Treaty of Versailles
New Technology of WWI
Dirigibles (a.k.a. zeppelins,
blimps)
 Submarines
 Giant Artillery Guns (Big Bertha)
 Tanks
 Poison Gas (Mustard Gas)
 Airplane (Bi-Planes)
 Trenches
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Weapons
Fourteen Points
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Before the end of the war, Wilson
addressed Congress on his 14
points for peace
Open treaties
2. Freedom of seas
3. Removal of trade barriers
4. Reduction of armaments
5. Adjustment of colonial claims with
regard to native people
6-13. readjust European boundaries to
acknowledge ethnicity
14. League of Nations
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Treaty of Versailles
Between Allies and Germany
 Dominated by “Big Four”
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David Lloyd George – GB
 Make
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Germany Pay
Georges Clemenceau – France
 Security
against future invasions by
Germany
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Vittorio Orlando – Italy
 Enlarge
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Italy’s territory
Woodrow Wilson – US
 Create
peace by 14 points
Major Treaty Provisions
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War Guilt Clause: total blame to Germany
Reparations: Germany had to pay $33
Billion
Germany Lost colonies
Alsace-Lorraine returned to France
Germany’s military power diminished
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Limited to 100,000, no conscription
Could not build new subs or airplanes
Rhineland demilitarized
League of Nations established
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Weakened because US refused to join
(isolationism) and Germany and Russia were
forbidden to join
Treaty Map
Other Results
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Almost an entire generation of men killed, less
marriage and children, Birth rate declined in
Europe
Italy and Japan angry at not receiving territory
Ottoman Empire reduced to present-day Turkey
Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolved
New Nations: Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia
Russia lost territory to Romania and Poland;
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland gained
independence
Poland restored, given a “Polish Corridor” to Baltic
Ottoman Empire divided into mandates; GB
controlled Iraq and Pakistan, France controlling
Syria and Lebanon