THE GREAT WAR

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

LEARNING TARGETS
I can summarize the technological innovations in
WWI
I can explain Woodrow Wilsons role in the Treaty of
Versailles.
I can explain what the Fourteen Points were and
why it was so important to Wilson.
I can explain why the United States Senate rejected
the Treaty of Versailles
I can analyze the provisions of the treaty and
explain how they set the stage for World War II

THE DOUGHBOYS ARRIVE OVER

THERE
Cantigny
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau Wood
Second Battle of
the Marne
Mause- Argonne
General Black Jack
Pershing lost 120,000
men

Sedan

GETTING OUT!
Revolution hit AustriaHungry
Poland, Hungry and
Czechoslovakia
declared
independence

By November 1918,
the Ottoman Empire
and the AustriaHungarian Empire
had surrendered.

GERMANY GIVES UP
German unrest at
home.
Kiel Mutiny

9 November 1918,
the Kaiser abdicatedGerman Republic
founded.
Armistice was signed
on the 11th day on
the 11th hour and the
11th minute of 1918.

THE PEACE AT VERSAILLES

January 1919,
delegations from 27
countries met at the
Palace of Versailles.
Big Four

Woodrow Wilson
George Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Vittorio Orlando

Russians not invited

because no one
recognized Lenins
government.

14 POINTS
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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international
understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas.
The removal, of all economic barriers and the establishment of equality of trade conditions among all the
nations
Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point
consistent with domestic safety.
free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims
The evacuation of all Russian territory
Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the
sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations
All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by
Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty
years, should be righted,
A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
The people of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured,
should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.
Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated;.
The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other
nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an
absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently
opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
An independent Polish state should be erected
A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual
guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.