WWI Ends

The End of Fighting

• U.S. enters the war as Russia is leaving• Germany refocuses on the Western Front • Second Battle of Marne • Armistice reached November 11, 1918

A Difficult Peace• Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points

– Reduction of weapons– Right of all people to choose their own government– Established of a world peace organization through talking not fighting

• Treaty of Versailles – Germany forced to take full blame for the war– Pay reparations – Limit the size of their military– Return conquered lands to France and Russia– Poland was created– Established the League of Nations

Europe's Lines shift

• Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were broken up creating independent countries:– Austria– Hungary– Yugoslavia– Czechoslovakia– Turkey

Impact of WWI on Europe

• Millions of people killed or wounded • http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casd

eath_pop.html• Much of Europe destroyed• Widespread political unrest and economic

problems• New countries formed• League of Nations created