1. WORLD WAR I Armistice, the Paris Peace Conference & the Treaty of Versailles

2. …ON THE WAY TO ARMISTICE Woodrow 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.

3. FREE TRADEOPEN AGREEMENTS DEMOCRACY SELF DETERMINATION FREE TRADE, OPEN AGREEMENTS, DEMOCRACY & SELF DETERMINATION AND A DIPLOMATIC END TO THE WAR (AND A DIPLOMATIC END TO THE WAR!) …ON THE WAY TO ARMISTICE Woodrow Wilson’s “FOURTEEN POINTS”

4. ALLIED ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY Germany Falls Apart By September 1918, situation for Germany is “HOPELESS” – sets ARMISTICE in motion… HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE DESERTIONCIVILIAN STRIKES MUTINYGERMAN REVOLUTION …DESERTION, CIVILIAN STRIKES, MUTINY, GERMAN REVOLUTION

5. ALLIED ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY Armistice of Compiègne RUSSIA RUSSIA (December 1917) BULGARIA BULGARIA (September 1918) OTTOMANS OTTOMANS (October 1918) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (November 1918) GERMANY – NOV. 11, 1918 ‘Armistice Day’ – ‘Veteran’s Day’ ARMISTICE: “A TERMINATION OF HOSTILITIES AS A PRELUDE TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS”

6. PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE Negotiations 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 Diplomats from more than 32 countries! BIG FOUR MAJOR DECISIONSPPC MAJOR DECISIONS @ “PPC” LEAGUE OF NATIONS Creation of the LEAGUE OF NATIONS PEACE TREATIES Five PEACE TREATIES with Central Powers Awarding of GERMAN & OTTOMAN COLONIES to Great Britain and France REPARATIONS REPARATIONS imposed on Germany NEW NATIONAL BOUNDARIES Drawing of NEW NATIONAL BOUNDARIES (SELF-DETERMINATION)

7. TREATY OF VERSAILLES Formal Peace With Germany ONE OF FIVE peace treaties at the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI 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 “FORMALLY ENDED THE STATE OF WAR BETWEEN GERMANY AND THE ALLIED POWERS!” (June 28, 1919) MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE TOV MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE “TOV” WAR GUILT CLAUSE “WAR GUILT CLAUSE” REPARATIONS German REPARATIONS for allied damages (132 billion marks) DE-MILITARIZATION German DE-MILITARIZATION ALSACE LORAIN ALSACE & LORAIN returned to France (1871) NEW POLISH STATE Eastern Germany given to a NEW POLISH STATE

8. LEGACY OF WWI New Countries and Old Ones… OLD EMPIRES COLLAPSE, NEW NATIONS EMERGE!