The Fourteen Points

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The Fourteen Points

• Proposed by Woodrow Wilson.
• Jan. 1918, ten months before end of WWI.
• Supposed to be a plan for world peace.

2
Central Powers Defeat

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Germany and Russia 1918
• Allowed Germany to concentrate on defeating
  France
• July 1918, Germany pushed out of France

3
Armistice

• Kaiser Wilhelms Government Collapses Nov. 9,
  1918.
• New German leaders signed an Armistice on Nov.
  11, 1918.
• Signed in a rail car in France.

4
Armistice Terms

• Allies occupy German territory West of Rhine
  River.
• Germany had to surrender submarines and naval
  fleet.
• Release all war prisoners.
• Turn over munitions.

5
Costs of the War

• 10 Million Dead
• 20 million Wounded
• Germnay 1.8 million
• Russia lost almost as many
• France 1.4 million
• United States 50,000

6
Paris Peace Conference

• Delegates of Victorious Nations met Jan. 1919.
• Also called Versailles Conference.
• Members of Big Four
• Great Britain
• France
• U.S.
• Italy

7
Territorial Claims

• France wanted security against Germany.
• Alsace and Lorraine returned to France.
• France wanted control to Rhine River in Germany.
• Other countries also wanted German land.

8
Reparations

• Germany forced to pay for costs of war.
• Was this fair?

9
League of Nations

• Proposed by Wilson.
• Had wide appeal, but many Europeans distrusted
  it.
• League of Nations never ratified by United
  States.
• Demanded a strong lesson of defeat for Germany.

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Soldiers in Trench
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Trench
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Trench
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Soldier in Trench
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Trench Periscope
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World War I Tank
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Argonne Forest, France
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Woodrow Wilson