End of WWI
I. Agreements
A. armistice – November 11, 1918
(11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month)
B. Treaty of Versailles – official end of War
1. negotiated at Paris Peace Conference
2. signed June 28th, 1919
C. “Big Three” negotiated
1. England – punish Germany
2. France – revenge &
guarantee of security from
German aggression
a. demanded reparations
3. United States – “Fourteen Points”
a. self–determination for nations = right of people
to have their own nation
b. Wanted to create union of nations
4. Italy – “Big Four” – not have much influence
II. Treaty ended empires and drew new map of Europe
A. Austro-Hungarian Empire  Austria, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia = Bosnia + Serbia, Poland,
“the Baltics”  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
III. Ottoman Empire broken in to mandates in Middle East
A. administered by British and French
B. new countries: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
IV. Germany Punished
A. lost colonies in Africa
B. pay reparations
C. limited armaments – amount of weapons
Germany can have
1. no planes, 6 naval war ships, 100,000 soldiers,
and no conscription
D. German War Guilt Clause – accepts blame for
causing WWI
ONLY FOUR
COUNTRIES WERE
INDEPENDENT:
ETHIOPIA, LIBERIA,
EGYPT, AND
MOROCCO.
MOST OTHER
TERRITORY WAS
DIVIDED BETWEEN
BRITAIN, FRANCE,
SPAIN, PORTUGAL,
BELGIUM, AND ITALY
The Allied and Associated
Governments confirm
and Germany accepts the
responsibility of Germany
and her allies for causing
all the loss and damage
to which the Allied and
Associated Governments
and their national have
been subjected as a
consequence of the war
imposed upon them by
the aggression of
Germany and her allies.