- Germany
- Big guns that shoot long distances
- Planes - Used for bombing, mail, spying, dog-fighting
- Tanks - Used more towards the end of the war, larger, bigger, weren't used much because of trench warfare
- Gases - Tear gas, mustard gas, suffocating gases, sternutator
- America
- Grenades - Pineapple grenades
- Rifles
- Shotguns
- Pistols - Close range shots, easier to reload
- Planes - Used for bombing, mail, spying, dog-fighting
- Tanks - smaller, thinner, used towards the end of the war, main form of artillery, weren't used much because of trench warfare
- Medical advancements
- Medics were used often
- Used plants, herbs and pharmaceutics to help wounded soldiers
- Portable x-ray machine
- Blood packs were given to the soldiers for there loss of blood
- Medics were used often
- Blimps
- Flamethrowers
- Submarines
- Battle ships
End of WWI
- Armistice means a cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace negotiation
- Both sides agreed to stop fighting
- November 11, 1918
- Signing of the Armistice
- Signed at 5 a.m. on the morning of November 11, 1918 and came into effect at 11 a.m.
- Conditions for Germany
- Effective 6 hours after signing
- Immediate clearing of Belgium, France, Alsace-Lorraine, to be concluded within 14 days. Any troops remaining in these areas to be interned or taken as prisoners of war.
- Surrender 5,000 cannons, 30,000 machine guns, 3,000 trench mortars and 2,000 places
- Evacuation of any place they were at
- Nothing to be removed from the territory - leave everything intact
- Surrender 5,000 locomotives, 150,000 railway coaches, 10,000 trucks
- Maintenance of enemy occupation troops through Germany - French, US and British troops could go in and occupy Germany
- Causes for Germany to surrender
- Other forces were pushing the Germans back closer to Germany
- 14 points
Wilson's 14 points
- Gave a speech to congress
- Moral cause of the postwar peace in Europe
- Became the basis for a peace program
- 14 points
- No secret agreements
- Free navigation in all seas - go around the world without fear of being sunk
- An end to economic barriers between countries - trade with all countries of the war
- Reducing of the numbers of weapons - get rid of militarism
- Decisions regarding the colonies should be impartial - independence for colonies
- The German army should leave Russia
- Belgium should be independent again
- France should recover Alsace Lorraine
- All Italians are allowed to live in Italy
- Turkish people should be governed by a Turkish government
- Independence should be allowed to Balkans
- Self determination should be allowed to Austria Hungary - let them decide their own future
- Poland should be independent and have access to the sea
- A league of nations should be created -
- Reactions
- many allies were skeptical about Wilson's idealism
- Britain refused to sign on some points
- Allies wanted Germany to pay for the reparations
- Germans believed it was fair terms of peace
- countries wanted revenge and money
- Maximilian of Baden (Germany) asked Wilson for an armistice in October 1918
- Wilson became sick at the beginning of the Paris peace conference
- The French Prime Minister changed many of Wilson's points
- influenced Treaty of Versailles
- influenced the Foreign Policy
Comments
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