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What, when, & why?. Armistice? An end to fighting. Signed: 5:12 – 5:20am, 11 November 1918, in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France. Guns to stop 6.

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1 What, when, & why?

2 Armistice? An end to fighting. Signed: 5:12 – 5:20am, 11 November 1918, in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France. Guns to stop 6 hours later: 11am, 11/11/1918.

3 Paris Peace Conference 18 January 1919 – 21 January 1920 Reshaping Europe! Representatives from the whole world

4 June 1919, Versailles Palace. You are one of the ‘Big Three’: Representing Britain... Prime Minister, David Lloyd George! Representing France... President, Georges Clemenceau! Representing the United States of America... President Woodrow Wilson!

5 June 1919, Versailles Palace. You are one of the ‘Big Three’: Representing Britain... Prime Minister, David Lloyd George! Representing France... President, Georges Clemenceau! Representing the United States of America... President Woodrow Wilson! And also...the German representatives – can observe, and must sign, but cannot participate.

6 The Treaty of Versailles – GARGLE! Guilt – Germany accepted full blame for the war -- the ‘War Guilt Clause’, Article 231 --Germany rejected it as too harsh Army – army 100,000 men, no submarines, no aeroplanes, 6 battleships Reparations – £6,600 million (£217 billion in 2011!) Germany lost land – e.g. Alsace-Lorraine to France Germany kept Rhineland, but had to stay demilitarised. League of Nations set up Extra points – banned from union with Austria

7 An ‘Unhappy Compromise’?


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