Transcript World War I Ends

World War I Ends
From armistice to lasting peace…?
Armistice Day
• 11/11/1918 at 11:00am
• No single “battle” that
ends the war
Results?
• http://www.pbs.org/greatw
ar/resources/casdeath_pop.
html
Total deaths: just under 9
million
Total wounded: about 21
million
Total Casualties: 30 MILLION
See p. 472
The Treaty of Versailles
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points: his
plan for “peace without victory”
• International recognition of
freedom of the seas
• End all secret alliances
• Just (fair) settlement of colonial
claims
• Right of self-rule for all nations
• WILSON’S BIGGEST GOAL WAS TO
GET A LEAGUE OF NATIONS A
group of nations that could meet
together to talk problems out
before they got out of hand! He
bended to the demands of the
Big Four quite a bit just so he
could get this passed.
What was done at the Treaty?
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GERMANY WAS LEFT OUT of the Paris Peace
Talks….therefore they had no say in what
happened to them after the war.
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THE BIG FOUR:
Woodrow Wilson: USA
Georges Clemenceau: France
David Lloyd George: Great Britain
Vittorio Orlando: Italy
THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES PUNISHED
GERMANY…..
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Reduced Germany’s size
Lost Alsace-Lorraine back to France
Lost all coloniesdivided up and given to the
“winners”
Had to pay cost of war (reparations) to all
countries
Reduced army, couldn’t make weapons
New Countries Created!
• Czechoslovakia, Lithuania,
Estonia, Latvia, Finland,
Yugoslavia, Poland (was
there before, and now given
back)
• The point of these
countries, in the eyes of the
Allies, was to serve as
“buffer states” to keep the
“aggressive nations” in
check. This is known as
CORDON SANATAIRE.
Woodrow Wilson and his “League of
Nations”
• Wilson’s plan for “peace without victory” fails:
WHY?!
– U.S. is NOT IN THE LEAGUE!
– Germany is NOT IN THE LEAGUE
– Does the League have an army?
– How did the failures of the League lead DIRECTLY
to WWII?