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 Opens on 18 January 1919 Officially concluded 21 January 1920 with the first LoN assembly! Reshaping Europe! Representatives from the whole world

4. Signed 28 th June 1919, Versailles Palace – exactly 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand! 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’?